If you’ve recently installed a Flash Player Android app and now almost every app you open asks you for your payment card details, you’ve been infected with a banking Trojan. It is unclear where the fake, malicious Flash Player can be downloaded from, but it’s likely one or more third-party apps stores popular around the world. What is clear is that the app is bad news. Once victims install and run it, it will push them to grant it device administrator rights via a fake Google Play service, and it then will “disappear” into the background and kick into action each time they open one of 94 different mobile banking apps or a number of other popular social networking or messaging apps (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Snapchat, etc.)
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Help Net Security
