Android alert! These apps are targeting your bank account

Android user's bank account are under threat due to some of the apps on your mobile as these contain the harmful Ansta virus.

Zscaler ThreatLabz unveiled a number of harmful apps that hold dangerous malware after being downloaded on Android. It allows hackers inside Android mobile to steal passwords, and let them withdraw cash by using bank accounts.

In addition, the device owner may not know anything is imperfect until they check their bank account. The apps are accessible on Google’s Play Store, and more than five million apps have been installed. PDF and QR scanners are the most recently downloaded apps identified to have harmed over 70,000 Android mobiles.

Google Play Store have various dangerous apps that puzzle to be helpful apps like file managers, editors, translators, and much more. These programmes utilise a "dropper technique" to harm devices.

The app that is installed is displayed as to be secured. However, through online updates, hackers insert malware that steals money.

"The recent campaigns conducted by threat actors deploying the Anatsa banking trojan highlight the risks faced by Android users, in multiple geographic regions, who downloaded these malicious applications from the Google Play store, " stated a Zsclaer spokesman.