Face off: New Banking Trojan steals biometrics to access victims’ bank accounts

Group-IB and VentureBeat report on a novel banking trojan (linked to a Chinese-based hacking family) that harvests biometric face scans and swaps them with AI deepfakes to defeat bank biometric checks; attackers also use tools to impersonate bank call centers. The report includes a cited Vietnam case where roughly $40,000 was stolen and highlights large year-over-year increases in deepfake, spoofing and emulator-based attacks, warning of evolving social-engineering and biometric-fraud techniques.