Banking against malware-related scams

Department of Information Systems & Analytics, Digital Transformation, Platforms & Innovation, News Media, Teaching

BACK in August, Simon Hsu, a customer of OCBC Bank, was trying to access the bank’s mobile app to verify that he had received a PayNow fund transfer, when an error message flashed on the screen.

The OCBC app on his phone had stopped running because of another app in the phone that had not been downloaded from an official app store, such as Google’s Play Store or Huawei’s AppGallery.

The Business Times, 13 October 2023 

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