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- 18 May 2023
New Smartphone Trojan Signs up Users for Unwanted Paid Services via Apps
Kaspersky researchers have discovered a new Trojan family that targets Google Play users. The subscription trojan, dubbed Fleckpe, spreads via photo editors and wallpapers, subscribing unaware users…
- 28 Feb 2023
Kaspersky Discovered 200,000 new Mobile Banking Trojan Installers in 2022
Kaspersky experts discovered nearly 200,000 new mobile banking Trojans, marking a two-fold increase from the previous year's figures. This alarming surge in the number of mobile banking Trojans is…
- 2 Mar 2017
Mobile Advertising Trojans Account for 16 of Top 20 Malware- Report
A latest report by Kaspersky Lab shows that mobile advertising Trojans exploiting super-user rights became the top mobile malware threat last year. According to the report obtained by Nigeria…
- 4 Jan 2017
Kaspersky Warns: Faketoken Mobile Banking Trojan Targeting Over 2000 App
Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a modification of the mobile banking Trojan, Faketoken that can encrypt user data. Disguised as various programs and games, including Adobe Flash Player, the…
- 6 Mar 2026
Report finds the Number of Trojan Banker Attacks on Smartphones Increased by 56% in 2025
According to a Kaspersky report “Mobile malware evolution,” the number of Trojan banker attacks on Android smartphones increased by 56% in 2025 compared to the previous year*. This type of malware is…
- 11 Aug 2021
New Android Trojan Hijacks Facebook Accounts
A previously unseen Android Trojan dubbed FlyTrap has targeted at least 140 countries since March this year, spreading to more than 10 000 victims via social media hijacking, third-party app stores,…
- 24 Jun 2025
Kaspersky Discovers SparkKitty a New Trojan Spy on App Store and Google Play
Kaspersky researchers have discovered a new Trojan spy called SparkKitty which targets smartphones on iOS and Android. It sends images from an infected phone and information about the device to the…
- 25 Sept 2024
Necro Trojan Sneaks into Google Play with up to 11m Victims
In late August 2024, Kaspersky experts identified a new version of the Necro Trojan that had infiltrated several popular applications on Google Play and modified applications on unofficial platforms,…
- 7 Jul 2023
Qbot Emerges Most Prevalent Malware in First Half of 2023, Mobile Trojan SpinOk Makes its Debut
Check Point® Software Technologies, a provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, has published its Global Threat Index for June 2023. Researchers found that the Trojan Qbot has been the most…
- 21 Jul 2021
Kaspersky Report shows Financial Trojans Increase in Nigeria by 32% in Q2 2021
With digital transformation a top priority on the corporate agenda as companies identify new ways to grow their business, cyber attackers and opportunist cybercriminals remain very active. Trojan…
- 2 Oct 2023
Firm Unveils Banking Trojan's Sneaky Evolution and Cryptocurrency Threats
Kaspersky experts have analysed a recent campaign by Zanubis, a banking Trojan distinguished by its adeptness at assuming the guise of legitimate applications. The investigation also sheds light on…
- 5 Feb 2025
Firm Discovers New Crypto-stealing Trojan in AppStore, Google Play
Kaspersky Threat Research expertise center has discovered a new data-stealing Trojan, SparkCat, active in AppStore and Google Play since at least March 2024. This is the first known instance of…
- 8 Apr 2025
Firm Identifies Fake Websites Spreading Trojan-Downloader TookPS Under the Guise of Popular Software
Kaspersky has uncovered that a Trojan-Downloader dubbed TookPS is being spread through malicious websites imitating popular remote access and 3D modeling software. First observed by Kaspersky experts…
- 16 Sept 2015
IBM Unleashes CoreBot for Front Line Banking Trojan
IBM's X-Force research team has disclosed that the recently discovered CoreBot malware has lived up to its earlier warnings quickly transforming into a full-fledged banking Trojan CoreBot, reported…
- 24 Nov 2008
Panic as Computer Virus Steals Bank Accounts
Experts have asked computer users to be wary of new Trojan viruses, Sinowal Trojan which infect and destroy online bank accounts and another, a Facebook virus which is attacking the network’s…
- 4 Mar 2025
Banking Data Theft Attacks on Smartphones Triple in 2024 - Report
The number of Trojan banker attacks on smartphones surged by 196% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to a Kaspersky report “The mobile malware threat landscape in 2024” released at…
- 12 Mar 2026
Kaspersky Uncovers a New Android Malware Campaign Disguised as Starlink Application
Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has uncovered a new Android malware campaign in which cybercriminals distributed the BeatBanker Trojan under the guise of the Starlink application…
- 19 Apr 2020
Kaspersky Reports Over a Third of Banking Malware Attacks in 2019 Targeted Corporate Users
In 2019, 773,943 users of Kaspersky solutions globally were attacked by banking Trojans. Of those users, a third (35.1%) were in the corporate sector. African countries were affected too: almost…
- 13 Apr 2023
New Emotet Campaign Bypasses Microsoft Blocks to Distribute Malicious OneNote Files
Check Point Research reports that Emotet Trojan launched a new campaign last month to evade Microsoft’s macro block, sending spam emails containing malicious OneNote files. Meanwhile Ahmyth was the…
- 30 May 2019
Kaspersky Lab Reports 61% Increase in Mobile Banking Malware
Mobile banking Trojans are among the most rapidly developing, flexible and dangerous types of malware, according to Kaspersky Lab, which found a 61% increase in the number of files (from 18,501 to…
- 9 Oct 2024
Firm Uncovers PipeMagic Backdoor Attacks Businesses Through Fake ChatGPT Application
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has recently discovered a new malicious campaign involving the PipeMagic Trojan, which has shifted from targeting entities in Asia to expanding…
- 20 May 2017
WannaCry: Kaspersky Records Over 45,000 Attacks in One Day
Barely a week ago, the world, saw the beginning of the Trojan encryptor WannaCry outbreak. It appears to be pandemic — a global epidemic. “We counted more than 45,000 cases of the attack in just one…
- 7 Dec 2022
Xenomorph Malware: NCC-CSIRT Advises Nigerians To Factory-Reset Infected Devices
A malware, Xenomorph, that installs Trojan in banking apps on the Android platform to steal login details, raid bank accounts, and read the users SMS, has been flagged by the Nigerian Communications…
- 8 Aug 2021
Kaspersky Identifies Top Malware Families in Nigeria, Others
Kaspersky researchers have identified the top malware families in Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya as ransomware, financial/banking Trojans and crypto-miner malware. In a report, Kaspersky researchers…
- 13 Jan 2021
Number of New Malicious Files Grew 5.2% a Day in 2020 - Report
In 2020, Kaspersky detected a global average of 360 000 new malicious files each day, an increase of 5.2%, or 18 000 more, compared to the year before. Trojan horse virus According to the security…
- 3 Sept 2014
Over 150,000 New Malware Created Daily in 2Q2014
A whopping 160,000 new malware samples were generated in the second quarter of this year, bringing the number 15 million, with trojans once again accounting for the majority. However, Potentially…
- 18 Mar 2025
Microsoft Warns of StilachiRAT Malware Threat to Cryptocurrency Wallets
Microsoft has issued a warning to users about a newly identified malware called StilachiRAT. The company describes StilachiRAT as a remote access trojan (RAT) with advanced capabilities that allow it…
- 12 Jun 2025
Report Reveals New Malware Posing as an AI Assistant Steals User Data
Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team researchers have discovered a new malicious campaign which is distributing a Trojan through a fake DeepSeek-R1 Large Language Model (LLM) app for PCs.…
- 12 Oct 2021
How Kaspersky Blocked Over 30,000 Mobile Malware Attacks in Nigeria, Kenya & South Africa
Over 30,000 out of the more than 206,000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in just 6-months measured, between January to June…
- 12 Oct 2021
Kaspersky Blocks more than 30 000 Mobile Malware Attacks Combined in Nigeria, Others in 6-months
Out of the more than 206 000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in just 6-months measured, between January to June 2021, over…