2017 has witnessed numerous ransomware and malware attacks. The new malware Xafecopy Trojan, which steals money from mobile phone users, has been recently detected by a Russia-based internet security firm Kaspersky. What’s alarming is that the penetration rate reveals 40 per cent of the malware’s targets has been in India. The Xafecopy Trojan is categorised as a malware because it gets side loaded along with other useful apps and then loads malicious code onto the device. Here is how the Xafecopy Trojan works: