New hacking tool targeting Bangladesh Android users blurs lines between spying and stealing
In one of his regular sweeps for new malicious software targeting Android phones, security researcher Vitor Ventura came across what looked like a run-of-the mill hacking tool. Like so many pieces of code before it, the malware was capable of stealing information from a mobile device and sending it back to a command and control server. But when Ventura dug deeper, he found that the remote access trojan (or RAT, as the tool is commonly known) was capable of surreptitiously recording conversations and taking screenshots. Spying, rather than immediately making money off of the illicit access, was the apparent goal. On Tuesday, Ventura and his colleagues at Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence unit, publicly connected the new Android tool to the malware developers behind a multi-year effort to spy on people from South America to Bangladesh. Much about the people behind the hacking campaign is a mystery. Ventura and his colleagues […]
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