2023 Mobile Banking Heists Report

Mobile is the digital channel of choice for banking and the target of choice for malicious actors employing banking trojans to compromise banking apps. Understanding the evolution, tactics, and impact of mobile banking malware is essential to building secure mobile banking apps that can defend against on-device abuse and garner customer trust.

In this report, we aim to give mobile product and security leaders the knowledge they need to develop mobile app security strategies that align with today's sophisticated malware. It is an essential read for those at the forefront of combating threats on the mobile platform.

What's Inside?

Key Research Insights
Top Targeted Financial Apps
New Fraud, Theft & Account Takeover Capabilities
Best Practices to Combat Malware
How Zimperium Can Help

Report Finds 29 Malware Families Targeted 1,800 Banking Apps Across 61 Countries in the Last Year

Powerful code obfuscation

Advanced anti-tamper defense

White-box cryptography

Strongest software-based key protection

Embedded Runtime App Self-Protection (RASP)

App protection while running in unknown environments

Why Zimperium for Mobile App Security?

A Platform Approach to Mobile App Protection

Zimperium's Mobile Application Protection Suite (MAPS) consists of four products with a centralized dashboard to view threats and create response policies. It is the only unified platform that combines centralized visibility with comprehensive in-app protection, combining both inside-out and outside-in security approaches to help enterprises build and maintain secure mobile apps.

zScan

Discover and fix compliance, privacy, and security issues within the development process before you publicly release your apps.

zKeyBox

Protect confidential data by securing cryptographic keys with white-box cryptography so they cannot be discovered, extracted, or manipulated.

zShield

Harden and protect the app with advanced obfuscation and anti-tampering functionality to protect the source code, intellectual property (IP), and data within the application.

zDefend

Enable the mobile application to detect and proactively protect itself by taking actions on the end user’s device, even without network connectivity.

Trusted Mobile Application Security Solution Across Industries