Alert, Android users! Malware stalking cyberspace

New Delhi: A mobile banking malware called “EventBot”, which steals personal financial information, may affect Android phone users in India, the federal cyber-security agency has said in a latest advisory.

The CERT-In has issued a caution, saying the Trojan virus may “masquerade as a legitimate application such as Microsoft Word, Adobe flash and others using third-party application downloading sites to infiltrate into victim device”.

A Trojan is a virus or malware that cheats a victim to stealthily attack its computer or phone-operating system.

“It has been observed that a new Android mobile malware named EventBot is spreading.