Avoid Cyber Crime Disguised As A Sah Application, Kaspersky Gives This Advice

Tips to avoid fake applications (photo: Pixabay)

JAKARTA - Recently, global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky discovered the evolution of banking trojan Zanubis, which could disguise itself as a legitimate application.

Zanubis, this Android banking trojan emerged in August 2022, targeting financial and crypto users in Peru, by imitating Peru's legitimate Android app.

Then in April 2023, Zanubis evolved, posing as an official application to the Peru SUNAT (Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administraci total Ttributaria) government organization, which showed an increase in the sophistication of this trojan.

Cybercriminals will not stop pursuing monetary gain, are now increasingly penetrating the world of crypto assets, and even posing as government agencies to achieve their goals, said Tatyana SHishkova, Kaspersky's top security researcher at GREAT.

To protect oneself from the dangers of this ever-evolved financial-motivated cyber threat, Kaspersky recommended: