Who is World Wired Labs and why are they selling an Android trojan?
A company advertising a remote access tool frequently used by criminals and nation-state hackers may be serving as a front for a Chinese hacking group, according to new research published Tuesday by BlackBerry Cylance. In a lengthy report on remote access trojans (RAT), BlackBerry Cylance researchers detail an Android malware variant, which they call PWNDROID4, that can be used to monitor targets’ phone calls, record audio, send and receive text messages, and track victims’ GPS location. Researchers believe it has been used by suspected Chinese government-linked hackers known as the Winnti group. In the report, researchers have pieced together that PWNDROID4 is remarkably similar to the Android version of a RAT known as NetWire, which has been around since 2017. BlackBerry Chief Product Architect Eric Cornelius told CyberScoop that researchers traced NetWire, a multi-platform RAT that’s been in use since at least 2012, back to a firm known as World Wired […]
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