Overview
- Detections of mobile banking trojans jumped to 255,090 in 2025 from 68,730 a year earlier, according to Kaspersky’s latest report.
- Kaspersky Security Network logged roughly 14 million blocked mobile attacks in 2025, with adware accounting for 62 percent of cases.
- Researchers flagged firmware-level threats such as the newly identified Keenadu backdoor, plus spy tools like LunaSpy that impersonate antivirus apps to siphon passwords and communications.
- In Germany, the malware Trojan-Proxy.AndroidOS.Agent.q posed as a discount app, overlaid invisible fields on banking apps, and manipulated SMS to intercept credentials.
- Recommended protections include installing apps only from official stores, disabling unknown-source installs, keeping OS and apps updated, reviewing permissions, and using a reputable security app while monitoring account activity.