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Remote access trojans, or RATs, can wreak havoc on your finances. Attackers come at you from every digital direction and the malware they cook up is often insidious in its adaptability. Android banking trojan TeaBot, which has been around since 2021, originally tried to lure users via "smishing," or fake SMS messages from innocent-looking services embedded with malicious links. Unfortunately, it hasn't been fully vanquished, as this year it acquired new methods for creeping onto your phone.
10 apps with millions of Play Store downloads found stealing Facebook login info
If you've downloaded one of the following, you might want to check your account
Google has a lot of moving parts behind the scenes, trying to keep malware off of the Play Store. But with seven figures of apps posting and updating constantly, even it doesn't have a perfect record. Such is the claim from a security researcher last week, which said they found ten apps with variations on a trojan horse program. The apps are fairly innocuous based on their title and description, but each is designed to scrape a user's phone for Facebook login credentials.