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Most of the program configurations discovered by cyber experts target for applications of banks in Italy, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Great Britain. With the help of the Vulture virus, attackers can steal almost any information from a smartphone, experts warn, NEWS.RU reports.

A malicious program from Google Play gets to the smartphone. And this distribution scheme is the most effective, since the site has a huge user base, and people’s trust in it is maximum. To date, two carrier applications have been discovered, which have already managed to infect smartphones of eight thousand users, said NEWS.RU.

The potential of the new virus makes it possible to adapt it to the new needs of fraudsters. And if you consider that Russia is the leader in the number of holders of crypto wallets, then the country can become a tasty morsel for the operators of the new virus.