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Unmasking the SMS Stealer: Targeting Several Countries with Deceptive Apps
The scale of this malware campaign is staggering.Our researchers have found over 107,000 malware samples directly tied to this campaign. This indicates a prolific campaign targeting a vast number of global victims.
Of those 107,000 malware samples, over 99,000 of these applications are/were unknown and unavailable in generally available repositories.
This malware was monitoring one-time password messages across over 600 global brands, with some brands having user counts in the hundreds of millions of users.
Victim’s spanned across 113 countries with Russia and India being the primary targets based on the volume of victim’s pulled from the samples.
Our researchers identified 13 C&C servers used by the malware to steal and leak SMS messages from victim devices.
A vast network of roughly 2,600 Telegram bots was linked to this campaign, serving as a distribution channel for some of the malicious applications.
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