Android Trojan Steals Your Money to Fund International SMS Attacks

guest · Jan 13, 2020

Android Trojan Steals Your Money to Fund International SMS Attacks
January 13, 2020
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An Android banking Trojan dubbed Faketoken has recently been observed by security researchers while draining its victims' accounts to fuel offensive mass text campaigns targeting mobile devices from all over the world.
Faketoken is an Android malware strain first introduced in an F-Secure report from 2012 as a Mobile Transaction Authentication Number (mTAN) interceptor camouflaged as a mobile token generator, a Trojan that later added ransomware capabilities in December 2016.

Besides using fake logins and phishing overlay screens to steal credentials and exfiltrating mTAN numbers used by banks to validate online transactions, the malware can also generate customized phishing pages targeting over 2,200 financial apps, and can steal device information such as the IMEI and IMSI numbers, the phone number, and more.
Banking malware turned offensive mass texting tool
"Not long ago, our botnet activity monitoring system — Botnet Attack Tracking — detected that some 5,000 smartphones infected by Faketoken had started sending offensive text messages," says Alexander Eremin, malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab. "That seemed weird."
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Kaspersky: The Faketoken Trojan sends out offensive texts

The ransomware app now uses infected devices to send SMS messages abroad on the victim’s dime
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