Davey Winder is a technology journalist who covers cybersecurity news and research. He’s covered everything from the true story behind the hacking of Donald Trump’s nude photos to a record-breaking ransomware payment of $75 million.
Malicious surveillance application attacks are increasing in what one security company has described as a spyware surge. The 101% increase, year on year, is cause for concern as security researchers from the Zscaler ThreatLabz issue a warning that it had detected 200 dangerous apps in the Google Play Store across a 12-month period.
Having analyzed data collected by the Zscaler security cloud, comprising a total of 20 billion threat-related transactions and associated threats, Zscaler researchers were able to determine that 200 dangerous apps were available on the Play Store between June 2023 and May 2024. This analysis found that one Android banking malware family, Anatsa, was using PDF and QR code reader apps to distribute itself while targeting more than 650 financial institutions across the globe. The financial sector was a prime target list for the dangerous apps that Zscaler found, an attack vector that has grown 29% since the same period the year before. This, however, plays into insignificance against spyware, which has increased by a shocking 101%.
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