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BankBot, an Android malware based on a source code leaked online

January 24, 2017

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Bad news for Android users, researchers from the Russian antivirus maker Dr. Web have reported that the source code for another Android banking malware has been leaked on an underground hacking forum. The leakage online of malicious source code is an ill-omened event, crooks could easily use it for their illegal activities and could also improve it by implementing their own features, including new evasion capabilities.

The experts from Dr. Web have already discovered an Android banking trojan (Dubbed BankBot) in the wild that was likely developed starting from the leaked source code.

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