Inside Android Banking Trojans in 2026: Why SOVA, Hook, and Octo Are Winning Against Your Device
The 2020 leak of Cerberus's source code spawned a malware family tree — Alien, ERMAC, Hook, Octo, SOVA — that now dominates Android banking fraud globally. Their secret weapon is not a clever exploit. It is a single Android permission that millions of users grant every day. Here is what that permission does and how the modern malware uses it.
