Watch out! Avoid sideloading Android apps to prevent ToxicPanda from draining your bank account foto: freepik/toon35 HOLIDAY NEWS - You may have heard the advice not to install applications from third-party websites onto Android phones. Why? The reason is that quite a few cybercriminals use ToxicPanda malware to drain people's bank accounts through infected applications. Because, ToxicPanda can infect Android devices through malicious sideloaded applications. Sideloaded is a way of installing applications that do not come from the official application store. For information, the ToxicPanda banking trojan, which is believed to be in the early stages of development, has been detected by security researchers in Europe and Latin America. It is believed to originate from another banking trojan detected in 2023, and was used to remotely take over accounts on compromised phones allowing attackers to transfer funds while bypassing security measures aimed at stopping transact
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