New Fortinet research details the evolution of BianLian from a simple malware dropper to a powerful Android banking Trojan capable of hijacking banking apps on an infected device by reading text messages, making calls, and recording the screen.
The developers of the malware have hidden the malicious code in a chaotic code base full of junk data and empty classes. According to the researchers, BianLian is now a serious contender in the banking malware space and this threat may only increase over time because it “seems to still be under active development.”
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