ThreatFabric details Hirudo, an Android banking RAT that uses lure apps to install a separate payload and replaces some Indonesian banking apps with patched copies that hide its activity and weaken security checks.
UK Finance’s Dianne Doodnath discusses how cross-sector collaboration, consumer awareness, and better fraud data can help address social engineering, mobile threats, and other evolving scams.
ThreatFabric details StreamRat, an Android banking trojan promoted through ads targeting Spanish-speaking users. Its dropper installs the malware, which abuses Accessibility Services and screen capture for remote control, credential theft, and data collection.
The article explains how PSD3 and PSR are shifting banks toward earlier fraud detection, and argues behavioral analytics can help protect customers while limiting personal-data collection and keeping risk decisions explainable.
ThreatFabric details Manic, an Android malware family focused on Ukraine that steals credentials, spies on victims and remotely controls devices. It can also relay encrypted data through nearby infected phones when direct internet access is unavailable.
ThreatFabric explains how behavioural analytics combines user interaction patterns with device-risk signals to help banks identify scams, account takeover and other fraud throughout a customer’s digital journey.