FATA Police: Use only official internal stores to download this category of programs
According to the Iran digital economy annotation, The cyber security company Zimperium announced a few days ago that in July of this year, hackers produced infected versions similar to the original ones of several Iranian banks, and the number of these infected programs now reaches 200.
Initially, these hackers had published fake applications of banks such as Mellat, Saderat and Resalat, and in the continuation of this hacker campaign, it has now become clear that fake versions of other banking applications such as Pasargad, Tejarat and Blubank have also been published.
According to this Aminiti company, the installation of these applications can provide hackers with bank account login information and even the theft of one-time SMS password to log into the mobile bank of Iranian users. It is also said that these infected programs can even gain access to users’ digital currency wallets and make them possible targets of the hood in the future.
According to the experts of this security company, hackers have added more features to these infected programs in their new campaign, which makes it easier to collect information from the target device. Hackers have also focused on Xiaomi and Samsung devices.
Also, the evidence shows that hackers are most likely working on the iOS version of these banking malwares, and we will probably see this category of programs for iPhone users in the future.
Download from official stores; The only way to prevent
Colonel Davoud Moazami Goudarzi, head of Tehran’s Fata police, said: “The only way not to become a victim in this direction is for people to download and install mobile bank software from official sources.”
The main method of accessing and penetrating the mobile phones of users, especially the owners of Xiaomi and Samsung phones, is installing banking applications through unofficial methods such as Telegram, searching on Google and installing from non-banking websites and even Google Play, which due to the disconnection with Iranian banks, It is not possible to confirm the official versions of the mobile banks and to distinguish the original version from the fake one.
It is recommended that the users of banking applications get their used version only from the official website of the banks or from the official internal Android app stores such as the market, because the banks directly release the original versions there and in addition, the FATA police also monitor their performance. .
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