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Over the past few months, banking  Trojans  have disseminated their global impact by almost 50 %.  The appropriate security measures adopted by banks to strengthen their processes have proven futile with the never-before seen tactics evolved by the developers to facilitate the theft of online funds. Banking Trojans  continue to be a popular tool among cyber maniacs for stealing user’s banking details and draining bank accounts. The discovery of  Danabot, another Banking Trojan  in a row is an evidence to establish the fact. With the widely- reported initial campaigns in Australia, this banking Trojan later expanded its reach to European countries particularly Austria, Poland, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, its latest target being United States.   What is DanaBot? DanaBot is a modular Banking Trojan , first discovered in  malicious email campaigns  targeting Australian population in May 2018. This malware is programmed in  Delphi , an Int...

Banking Trojans are not new to the cyber-crime world. It is a malicious computer program designed to gain access to confidential banking information. This type of malicious system program is built with a backdoor to allow third parties to gain access to the system. As the security technologies especially in banking domain continue to improve, malware codes are being constantly evolved to evade detection. The financial cyber-crime landscape is hence, constantly changing and evolving to keep pace with the rising awareness and the increasing effectiveness of banking controls. With the increasing popularity of mobile among people for carrying out any transaction, cyber-criminals have embraced mobile as their platform of choice to carry out fraudulent activities. Since 2015 there has been a tremendous increase in the design and launch of fake mobile apps to deceive users. The nature of fake application depends on the goals of cyber-criminals who use different strategies to build and...