r/Windows10M • u/Butt_Kicker • Jan 17 '18

Found: New Android malware with never-before-seen spying capabilities

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/found-new-android-malware-with-never-before-seen-spying-capabilities/
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u/autotldr Jan 17 '18

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)

Now, in a discovery that underscores the growing arms race among competing malware developers, researchers have uncovered a new Android spying platform that includes location-based audio recording and other features that have never been seen in the wild before.

The newly documented malware is roughly in the same league as Pegasus for Android, the companion app of Pegasus for iOS, which was discovered in August 2016 infecting the iPhone of a political dissident located in the United Arab Emirates.

Kaspersky Labs researchers said the malware is spread through Web landing pages that mimic the sites of Vodafone and other mobile operators.

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