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Exobot Author Calls It Quits and Sells Off Banking Trojan Source Code

  • January 17, 2018
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January 17th, 2018  By Catalin Cimpanu
 


 
Things are about to get a lot worse for Android users after the source code of a highly advanced Android banking trojan has been sold to different parties on a well-known hacking forum.
 
The trojan at the center of this worrisome news is called Exobot, an Android malware strain that first appeared on the malware scene in June 2016.
 
Just like most of today's professionally coded desktop or mobile banking trojans, Exobot has always been rented to customers on a monthly basis.
 
Customers never have access to the trojan's source code, but they can use configuration panels provided by the Exobot author to compile malicious apps with per-client custom settings.
 
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