Android is currently targeted by a double threat for people's phones all over the world, billions of people are targeted by what is happening at the moment, and the problems are very serious. More precisely, we are talking about two types of Android malware called TeaBot and FluBot, both of which have the same goal, to steal people's data, mainly banking data, but also other types of data about accounts on social networks, and not only that.
Android is targeted by this double danger because there are many users all over the world, so the chances of success of any type of attack are very high, so hackers try to steal people's data by any means. The way in which the two types of attacks are carried out is different, but in the end Android phone users are tricked into infecting their phones with malware, and giving some applications permissions they shouldn't have.
Android: Double Jeopardy for All People's Phones
Android is exploited more seriously by the TeaBot malware than by FluBot, and this is because the former can even take control of the devices it infects. This is where an extremely serious problem comes in because people don't know what's going on in the background on their phones, and so malware can get access to a lot of confidential information that it shouldn't normally have access to in Android, or any other operating system.
Android is designed to be safe, but just like in the case of other types of malware, and in the case of TeaBot, or FluBot, users are the ones who represent the greatest vulnerability. FluBot is distributed mainly through SMS messages that seem to come from courier companies, but also through popular cloned applications, while TeaBot is distributed mainly through the second method, but both target Android phones, and collect data mainly from those that also have banking applications.
Android has no way of having this problem solved if users don't want it to be solved, and it's not possible for Google to do anything, so it's mainly up to us.
