How to Get Rid of Rotexy Mobile Trojan?

Security researchers recently discovered a new member of Rotexy family that has casted attacks on over 70,000 Android devices in Russia, Germany, Ukraine & nearby countries. The Rotexy Banking Trojan uses three distinct communication channels to receive commands & is spreading through phishing links & enthralling texts sent via SMSs. 

A recent security report revealed a Banking Trojan from the Rotexy Malware family that casted over 70,000 attacks in a period of three months. The attack of Rotexy Mobile Trojan primarily targeted the users in Russia & is continuously spreading its tentacles to carry out its pernicious motives.

This new Rotexy Mobile Trojan is a blend of a Banking Mobile Trojan & a Ransomware Blocker that makes Rotexy a daunting threat. The security experts registered over 40,000 devious attempts of this Banking Trojan throughout the months of August & September. The baleful Trojan aimed at implanting a malicious app on Android smart phones.

Team Kaspersky carried out an in-depth analysis to track the evolution of this Banking Trojan & made a conclusion that Rotexy Mobile Trojan evolved from a SMS Mobile Spyware that was first reported in October 2014.  It was detected as Mobile Trojan- Spy.AndroidOS.SmsThief & has continuously evolved since then as new malicious features were added to it.

Rotexy Malware has proven to be highly versatile since its early releases & its main motive and distribution methods remained unchanged.

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