Hook Android Trojan Now Delivers Ransomware-Style Attacks
New features to take over smartphones and monitor user activity demonstrate the continued evolution of the malware, which is now being spread on GitHub.
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New features to take over smartphones and monitor user activity demonstrate the continued evolution of the malware, which is now being spread on GitHub.
The dangerous Anatsa banking Trojan is among the malware being spread to Android users via decoy mobile apps in recent months.
Mobile malware-as-a-service operators are upping their game by automatically churning out hundreds of unique samples on a whim.
A more sophisticated version of a "work in progress" malware is impersonating a Google Chrome app to attack a wider swath of mobile users.
A technique, dubbed the "Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan" (NUIT), allows an attacker to exploit smartphones and smart speakers over the Internet, using sounds undetectable by humans.
The new malware was discovered targeting three banks in Brazil.
Among other things, users who download the app could end up having their WhatsApp account details stolen.