A banking trojan Is a malicious program designed to steal financial information or money from on-line banking apps or other financial platforms. There are many ways a smartphone/laptop/computer can be infected with a banking trojan. Some of these vectors include:
- Malicious Adobe Flash Player update
- Amazon gift card offer scam
- IRS email phishing scam
- Malicious java script file
- Malicious Macro-enabled Word documents
- Malicious Pdf files with weblinks
- Malicious Google Doc
- Malicious WhatsApp Updater
- SMS messages with a link to download a malicious program
Almost every day it seems as though there is a new banking trojan that has been released. Some of the names are:
- Trickbot
- Emotet
- ZeuS
- QakBot
- IceID
- Bizarro
- And many more
- Only install applications from the vendor (Google/Apple)
- Keep apps and OS updated
- Consider whether you should give a certain app the permissions it requests
- Use an anti-malware program
- Stay aware and vigilant of the various threat vectors