This cyber criminals They never stop exploring opportunities. cheating and stealing without serious consequences. In this sense, the Mexican authorities have a trojan virus what’s this stealing their victims’ bank details.

The Office of Digital Evidence and Forensic Information Technology Analysis (DAEDIF), affiliated with the State Attorney General’s Office, said in an official statement that the malware was circulating among netizens in Mexico and that this malware should be circulating in Mexico. Be especially careful when receiving suspicious messages.

experts said “It is a virus that is installed on all kinds of electronic devices. through unintentional or accidental downloads, such as mobile phones, laptops, and tablets.

Because they can infecting devices without the user noticing about what’s going on, what they should have special care for attachments or contaminated connections When a pop-up window opens with deceptive content, such as those received via email, direct downloads that occur while visiting websites, or advertisements.

When banking trojan horse Installed without user action detects when user is using the app or online banking account. redirect them to malicious sites almost identical to that of the financial institution, so that they do not realize that it is a copy. enter your credentials. The data entered on the so-called official page is now taken by the cybercriminal who controls it. making expenses, transfers and more on behalf of the account holder.

“Some of these Trojan horses access the content of text messages, which means that even two-step verification can be breached to login to account

Given these scams, DAEDIF issues Suggestions Thus, users do not fall into the trap of cybercriminals.

– Be suspicious of messages asking the user to do something urgently.

– Avoid downloading and installing apps from text messages or emails.

– Avoid clicking on unknown links.

– Protect all electronic devices with antivirus-antimalware.

– Keep two-step verification active in all applications.

– Use a secure password manager.

Although the scam is registered in Mexico, everyone should be careful when browsing suspicious pages and remember that: attachments should never be downloaded postal or any other unsolicited or pending means, because usually “baits” for a virus to automatically install itself In the team.

For example, these days people have also been warned by Octo, an intruder software. bury anyone application from Google Play Store to check device at any time without the user’s knowledge.

Once infected, attackers take control. phoneWhat stealing the passwords of different banking applications that the user has installed while entering them.

Octo may not be noticed as an update to an app. And hacking into a phone opens the door for attackers to do whatever they want with it.

Investigation conducted by the security firm Threat Fabric this new malware, which is a kind of bot, It can infiltrate applications without being detected by the system. Its automatic operation, which disables Google Play Protect, is one of the first attack measures.