A threat comes this Christmas, and it’s not The Grinch, it’s something much worse. Cybersecurity is the order of the day and now We must protect our Xiaomi mobile from a new virus this directly attacks your bank account.

A few weeks ago, a Trojan appeared on Android. Introduced in various apps of Play Store and was able to spy on your activities in the terminal. This time it’s a virus copies your bank’s login page just to steal your money.

This ‘Godfather’ isn’t exactly generous

His name is ‘Godfather’ (English godfather) and his operation, they don’t know how to correctly distinguish the original website from a fake copyas in bulk SMS sendings where they impersonate our telephone company.

This way, ‘Dad’ overlaps your version of our bank’s home screenwhere you enter your bank details directly to the cybercriminal; have been working for more than a yearwhen discovered.

As with the vast majority of Trojans, viruses, and other malware, this one in particular, Find on Google Play StoreTherefore, we must be very careful when installing applications on our Xiaomi mobile, the developer of which is not trusted, because Can you upload this fake ‘Daddy’ to us? and it made us very sad.

How to protect your Xiaomi mobile from threats?

Besides controlling every app we install, it is very important. don’t let them all vaguely. So, if we download a music app (this virus has been downloaded millions of times from Turkey) pay attention to camera access permissions or to phone settings, because it only needs to ask us for audio related access.

It never hurts to use all kinds of anti virus (paid or free) and keep all apps and MIUI 13 and Android itself updated as they usually bring. security patches Which keeps our Xiaomi mobile safe from this kind of threat.