Android malware types like your gran to steal banking creds

A new Android malware strain, Herodotus, steals credentials, logs keystrokes, streams victims' screens, and hijacks input - but with a twist: it mimics human typing by adding random delays between keystrokes to evade behavioral fraud detection systems. The trojan, named after the ancient Greek Father of History - or Father of …

[PRR]

Throw in a lot of BackSpaces, like humans do.

[Anonymous Coward]

Smishing SMS msg and side-loading

Would you gran know how to side-load an app ?

[Irongut]

Re: Smishing SMS msg and side-loading

My gran wouldn't know what a mobile phone was, they didn't exist when she was alive.

[Just Enough]

Is this really new?

I don't know why this is reported as a new development. Seems a standard, obvious and easy thing for malware to do.

[Anonymous Coward]

I keep my cards in a "Faraday Cage" meshed wallet and I keep finance apps and cards off my phone. If your number ain't in my contacts, f**k off! If you message me and I wasn't expecting it, then it gets instantly deleted. I've lost and smashed phones too many times to trust them to hold anything more than my favourite MP3s and a slightly raunchy snap of the missus!!

[Irongut]

So it doesn't type anything?

If it types like my gran then it doesn't type anything. She died in the 1970s and I doubt she ever typed anything in her life.

[doublelayer]

Re: So it doesn't type anything?

You felt you had to post that twice? Also, there have been typewriters for quite some time. Just because your gran presumably wasn't working as a typist, can you be certain that she never chose or had to write something with one of those? And if, for even thirty seconds in her life, she did, then it probably does type like that because the long and variable times between characters are typical of inexperienced typists. The grans it's unlikely to type like are those who typed a lot and did so fluently, speedily, and accurately, and based on your assumption, that doesn't sound like it described yours.

[sstroud]

This is why I left

Lame clickbait stories about malware that affects literally nobody.

Sad to see this site hasn't moved on from posting this shite.