Spyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones

 Image Credits: TechCrunchAphone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android devices around the world, new data shows.Spyhide is a widely-used stalkerware (or spouseware) app that is planted on a victim’s phone, often by someone with knowledge of their passcode. The app is designed to stay hidden on a victim’s phone’s home screen, making it difficult to detect and remove. Once planted, Spyhide silently and continually uploads the phone’s contacts, messages, photos, call logs and recordings, and granular location in real-time.Despite their stealth and broad access to a victim’s phone data, stalkerware apps are notoriously buggy and are known to spill,...

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Mobile’s Latest Malware Threat: The All-in-One Android Trojan

A new Android Trojan — dubbed Android.Banker.L — combines the functionality of banking Trojans, keyloggers and ransomware to compromise victim devices and steal data. As reported by Quick Heal, the latest malware threat uses multiple methods simultaneously to attack user devices. In addition to a typical Android banking Trojan, the malware contains code that enables it to forward calls, record sound, conduct keylogging and deploy ransomware. It’s also able to launch device browsers with a URL received from its command-and-control (C&C) server, which is contacted via Twitter. Once installed, Android.Banker.L repeatedly opens the Accessibility Settings page and asks users to turn on Accessibility Service, which allows it to leverage...

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