The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

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Regulated in Circular 77/2025/TT-NHNN amending Circular 50 on online service security in the banking industry, to be in affect from March 1st: Thông tư số 77/2025/TT-NHNN của Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam: Sửa đổi, bổ sung một số điều của Thông tư số 50/2024/TT-NHNN của Thống đốc Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam quy định về an toàn, bảo mật cho việc cung cấp dịch vụ trực tuyến trong ngành Ngân hàng vanban.chinhphu.vn Clause 2, Article 5: Amend and supplement Clause 4 of Article 8 as follows: 4. Implement solutions to prevent, combat, and detect unauthorized interference with the Mobile Banking application installed on customers' mobile devices. The Mobile Banking application must automatically exit or stop functioning and notify the customer of the reason if any of the following signs are detected: a) A debugger is attached or the environment has a debugger running; or when the application is running in an emulator/virtual machine/emulator; or operating in a mode that allows the computer to communicate directly with the Android device (Android Debug Bridge); b) The application software is injected with external code while running, performing actions such as monitoring executed functions, logging data transmitted through functions, APIs, etc. (hooks); or the application software is tampered with or repackaged. c) The device has been rooted/jailbroken; or its bootloader has been unlocked."

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