Financial Brands Targeted in Global Mobile Banking Malware Surge

Zimperium zLabs reports a global, industrialized surge in mobile banking malware that now targets 1,243 financial apps across 90 countries; researchers observed major increases in Android banking trojan attacks and unique malware packages, with active families (TsarBot, CopyBara, Hook and new variants) using device takeover, session hijacking, authentication interception and AI-assisted techniques to conduct large-scale fraud.