[Stanley]

New Perseus Android Banking Malware Monitors Notes Apps to Extract Sensitive Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new Android malware family called Perseus that's being actively distributed in the wild with an aim to conduct device takeover (DTO) and financial fraud.
Perseus is built upon the foundations of Cerberus and Phoenix, at the same time evolving into a "more flexible and capable platform" for compromising Android devices through dropper apps distributed

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/new-pe...lware.html

[Null State]

The state of malware on smart devices has really been picking up pace the last few years. I see both sides of the arguments for Apple and Google wanting to lockdown app installations and secure the devices more, but I also see user's want to control their own device. Realistically it should be as simple as press this button and you can do whatever you want, but with a detailed disclaimer of what could/would/may happen due to you choosing to disable said security features. It's irritating as hell to me to unlock the bootloader on my device, I lose tons of functionality as well as once rooted lose even more due to apps such as banks spying on what's on the device and deciding based on that, I can't use their apps.