Windows 10: Huge Android trojan malware campaign was discovered

Brink · Oct 3, 2019

A giant botnet and banking trojan malware operation has infected hundreds of thousands of Android users since at least 2016 – but mistakes by the group have revealed details of the campaign and how they operate.

Dubbed the Geost botnet after a name repeatedly found in the attackers' command and control servers, the operation has been discovered by researchers from Czech Technical University, UNCUYO University in Argentina, and cybersecurity company Avast, who detailed their findings at the Virus Bulletin 2019 conference in London.

The campaign is believed to have infected up to 800,000 Android users and has potentially provided the attackers with access to bank accounts along with information about the names of victims, their type of phone and their location.

But despite the apparent success of the campaign, the Geost attackers made some basic errors that have allowed researchers to monitor their whole operation, read chat logs and even identify two of the criminals behind the campaign.

Researchers uncovered the group when examining samples of HtBot, a form of malware that provides attackers with pseudo-anonymous communication to the internet. However, when using the illegal HtBot service, the attackers didn't encrypt their data, alerting researchers to their activity.
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Edwin · Oct 3, 2019

A list of Android phones that come infected with dangerous trojan

Check this list, if you have (no major brands there) one of this 42 Android phones. They come infected with banking trojan out of the box...

*Arrow wccftech | 42-android-banking-trojan
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Quite the list!
Looks like they were all manufactured by Fisher-Price!

qubit · Oct 3, 2019

Manufacturers embed malware in their smartphones

Say whut?! This has actually shocked me. There's even a downloadable list of the culprits.

The antivirus maker has discovered several hundred different Android device models and versions that come with malware or adware preinstalled.
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Shock yourselves here.

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