This Android banking trojan uses a fake VPN prompt to silence Google's defenses
THE SO WHAT
Mobile security baselines that assume Play Protect is always on are now wrong—ToxicPanda 2.0 shows attackers will hijack VPN permissions to blind device-level defenses before going after banking flows. If you ship a financial or auth-heavy Android app, treat OS protections as soft and push more verification into your own channel and device fingerprinting logic.
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