What is an "XBOT" Trojan in Android Devices

"XBOT is a sort of Trojan which steals our credit card credentials, Contacts, SMS and other personal information from our device like Android phone, Trojan as we know is a malicious software which steals our personal information, this "XBOT" Trojan can also encrypt your device and then it can ask u for ransom"

Recently a new sort of Trojan found for android devices, which named "XBOT" and developed by Russian hackers. It is still under development and found changing malicious behavior frequently. Almost 25 apps in android are found vulnerable with this Trojan. The major feature of this Trojan is that, it does phishing to dodge users and it can create fake Google play store payment pages to trap you. It also can generate seven different bank payment portals to steal your information, like your card number, CVV, expire date and your card pin.

It also can encrypt your device data and then display you an error message that "If you want to decrypt your mobile data go to the given link and make a payment of this much amount, if u tried to decrypt your data u will loose all your important data.".

It is very essential to understand such vulnerabilities which are only found in Android devices. Your data and credentials might be very useful to you sometimes, so you are the first person to save your data and yourself from intruders or hackers. For more information on phishing techniques you can check previous post on phishing.

Solution

In order to save yourself from XOBT phishing please do not download unwanted third party applications which are full of advertisements. Try to ignore applications which offer you money. This may help you upto a lot of extent. So it was about XBOT Trojan so far. keep learning from computerflicks because it is beyond computing.