The Android banking fraud malware known as SharkBot has reared its head once again on the official Google Play Store, posing as file managers to bypass the app marketplace's restrictions.
A majority of the users who downloaded the rogue apps are located in the U.K. and Italy, Romanian cybersecurity company BitdefenderΒ saidΒ in an analysis published this week.
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The notorious Android banking trojan known asΒ SharkBotΒ has once again made an appearance on the Google Play Store by masquerading as antivirus and cleaner apps.
"This new dropper doesn't rely on Accessibility permissions to automatically perform the installation of the dropper Sharkbot malware," NCC Group's Fox-ITΒ saidΒ in a report. "Instead, this new version asks the victim to install the