The data of approximately 30,000 customers of Australia’s four largest banks was stolen using malware installed on mobile phones and personal computers.

Hackers breached the security of the four banks without the institutions noticing their intrusion, and then dumped this information on dark web forums, according to cybersecurity firm Dvuln.

The specialized firm has indicated that “the breaches affect approximately 14,000 Commonwealth Bank customers, 7,000 ANZ customers, 5,000 NAB customers, and 4,000 Westpac customers. The data was collected over a period of at least four years through malware campaigns targeting personal devices.”

On the other hand, it has emphasized that this is not a breach in the banks’ security systems, “but rather individual infections of users’ phones and computers” using infostealer-type malware.

According to the intelligence firm KELA, “more than 3.9 billion passwords have been stolen using this type of malware globally.”

Experts from KELA and Dvuln have emphasized the need to increase protective measures not only by users, “but also by software developers, governments, and financial institutions, which must adopt more aggressive digital defense strategies.”

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Cybersecurity specialists at ThreatFabric have warned about the Brokewell Trojan that presents itself as a fake Chrome update to steal data and bank accounts on Android 13+.

According to specialists, this malware can bypass security restrictions and violate access to give criminals remote access to all “assets available through mobile banking.”

It is a real threat, since once the user authorizes the fake Chrome update, the Trojan is downloaded and, through the executable file, enters the device to steal information.

This new family of mobile malware discovered by ThreatFabric constitutes a “major threat to the banking industry.”

The Brokewell Trojan overlay technique “is common for this type of malicious software, in which it overlays a fake screen on a specific application to capture user credentials. Likewise, it has the ability to steal session cookies and send them to a command and control server (C2).”

Researchers from the cybersecurity firm have pointed out that the Trojan has an accessibility log, which captures everything that happens inside the device, such as keystrokes on the screen, what open applications show, call history, geolocation, audio.

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