{"id":29566,"date":"2020-07-17T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chinese-hackers-are-conning-android-users-with-missed-delivery-texts\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T18:10:00","slug":"chinese-hackers-are-conning-android-users-with-missed-delivery-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chinese-hackers-are-conning-android-users-with-missed-delivery-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chinese hackers are conning Android users with \u2018missed delivery\u2019 texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Chinese hackers are conning Android users with \u2018missed delivery\u2019 texts<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 17, 2020 |<\/span> 2:10pm <\/p>\n

\n Another day, another nasty new piece of Android malware to be aware of \u2014 this time, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cybereason, it\u2019s malware that uses a \u201cmissed delivery\u201d text to phish its unsuspecting recipients.<\/p>\n

There has been a spate of these incidents lately, involving everything from sketchy app<\/a>s found in the Google Play Store to the presence of undeletable, malicious files and apps inside Android phones. After investigating this latest malfeasance, Cybereason\u2019s team found that it\u2019s a Chinese-speaking group of hackers operating under the banner of \u201cRoaming Mantis\u201d that\u2019s behind this so-called FakeSpy malware campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cFakeSpy has been in the wild since 2017; this latest campaign indicates that it has become more powerful,\u201d the Cybereason team notes. \u201cCode improvements, new capabilities, anti-emulation techniques, and new, global targets all suggest that this malware is well-maintained by its authors and continues to evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to this research, FakeSpy can exfiltrate and send SMS messages, in addition to stealing financial data, reading account information, and contact lists, among other nefarious acts. Users are tricked into clicking a text message informing them of a missed delivery, which steers them to download an Android application package. This is being used to target Android users all over the world, including in the US thanks to the malware\u2019s ability to send messages that purport to be from the US Postal Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoaming Mantis\u201d sounds the name of a villain from a movie, but it\u2019s actually the moniker of a Chinese threat actor group that\u2019s been around for a few years now and has continued to evolve. They used to mostly target Asian countries but have since expanded to strike at victims across the world.<\/p>\n

What can you do to protect yourself? Cybereason senior director and head of threat research Assaf Dahan told ZDNet that people should be suspicious of SMS messages that contain links. \u201cIf they do click on a link,\u201d Dahan said, \u201cthey need to check the authenticity of the webpage, look for typos or wrong website name, and most of all \u2014 avoid downloading apps from unofficial stores.\u201d These practices can protect you from inadvertently downloading malicious apps, getting phished by clicking on dodgy text message links, and more.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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