The CSIRT team (Computer Security Incident Response Team of the Polish financial sector) warns against fraudsters who have introduced a fake PKO BP IKO application.

The IKO application is offered by the PKO BP bank and can be used by up to 3.2 million bank’s customers.
According to the CSIRT, Alien malware, whose task is to steal online banking passwords, is hiding inside the malicious application.

Remember to only install the application from official sources. It is important to verify who its developer is. It is also worth looking at the number of application downloads and user reviews. It is known that the more rating and positive reviews an app has, the more downloads it gets. Unfortunately, it may happen that scammers buy positive ratings and reviews to increase the chance of the application being downloaded by as many users as possible.

More and more often, on banks’ websites, we can find messages warning against another fraud, an example of which can be the Santander or the Millennium banks.