The Rise of Android Banking Trojans
Andrea Atzeni, Fernando Gozalo Díaz, Francisco López, Andrea Marcelli, Antonio Bernardo-Sánchez, Giovanni Squillero · IEEE Potentials · 2020
As soon as banks began developing mobile applications to enable users to perform financial activities online, cybercriminals started formulating ways to penetrate this new channel and perform illicit transactions. For criminals, it is easier to exploit the scarce end-user security awareness and attack individual clients' devices rather than directly target the portals of banks.