Clicking This Fake Chrome Update Could Drain Your Bank Account and Leak Your Location

Security threat firm ThreatFabric has released details about a new Android-based banking malware called Brokewell. The name refers to the malware's ability to drain bank accounts, but it can do so much more.

The program is said to be in active deployment as of this article's writing, and currently masquerades as an update for Google Chrome on Android, even going so far as to very closely mimic the actual ads Google puts out for its browser.

ThreatFabric warns that Brokewell is equipped...