{"id":3685,"date":"2021-03-30T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2021-03-31T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:46:41","slug":"warning-new-android-malware-with-spying-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/warning-new-android-malware-with-spying-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning &#8211; New Android Malware with Spying Capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers have discovered a very advanced piece of Android malware that finds sensitive information on infected devices and sends it to servers controlled by attackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app disguises itself as a system update that must be downloaded from a third-party store. This malware features a fully featured spying platform that carries out a wide range of suspicious and malicious activities. Security firm Zimperium reported that these include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">&lt;li>Theft of instant messenger messages and database files, especially WhatsApp&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Inspection of bookmarks and searches in the default Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Samsung Internet browsers&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Look for files with specific extensions such as. pdf,. doc,. docx, and. xls,. xlsx&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Checking the data in the clipboard and the content of the notifications&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Recording of audio and telephone calls&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Regular shots through the front or rear cameras&lt;\/li>&lt;li>List of installed applications&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Theft of pictures and videos&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Monitoring of the GPS position&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Theft of SMS messages, telephone contacts and call logs&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Exfiltration of device information such as installed applications, device name, memory statistics&lt;\/li>&lt;li>Hide its presence by hiding the icon in the drawer\/menu of the device&lt;\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most experienced people will not fall victim to this malware, as it is only installed when you make obviously risky decisions, such as downloading third-party software and activating access services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you can see the original article in Ars Technica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a very advanced piece of Android malware that finds sensitive information on infected devices and sends it to servers controlled by attackers. The app disguises itself as a system update that must be downloaded from a third-party store. This malware features a fully featured spying platform that carries out a wide range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility","category-security","tag-malware"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}