August 13, 2019 By Tara Seals
The mobile banking trojan has a few unusual features and bears watching, researchers said.
A never-before-seen Android banking trojan, dubbed Cerberus, is being rented out on underground forums by a threat group that likes to engage with the defense community publicly via Twitter.
According to a Tuesday posting from ThreatFabric, Cerberus isn’t based on the leaked Anubis source code that underpins many new trojans on the market. Its authors claim that it’s completely bespoke, with no code re-use, and it comes with infrastructure support. That offers an important differentiator, according to the researchers, given that the Android banking trojan market is in a transition phase.
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