{"id":3925,"date":"2016-11-07T00:56:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2016-11-07T00:56:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:56:58","slug":"commercial-exaspy-spyware-used-to-target-high-level-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/11\/07\/commercial-exaspy-spyware-used-to-target-high-level-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Exaspy spyware used to target high-level executives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at Skycure have discovered a new strain of\u00a0Android spyware, dubbed Exaspy,\u00a0that has been used in targeted attacks against high-level executives.Researchers from Skycure discovered an instance of the Exaspy malware that\u00a0was installed on an Android 6.0.1 device owned by a Vice President at an unnamed company.<\/p>\n

Here is how the app installs itself when it runs for the first time:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Malware requests access to device admin rights<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Asks (nicely) for a <\/em>licence number<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Hides itself<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Requests access to root (if the device is rooted and managed through popular rooting apps). Once granted, it installs itself as a system package to make its uninstallation process harder.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Mitigation efforts should include disabling USB debugging and regularly checking an Android\u2019s Device Administrators list and disable components you don\u2019t trust<\/p>\n

    http:\/\/securityaffairs.co\/wordpress\/53108\/malware\/exaspy-spyware.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Researchers at Skycure have discovered a new strain of\u00a0Android spyware, dubbed Exaspy,\u00a0that has been used in targeted attacks against high-level executives.Researchers from Skycure discovered an instance of the Exaspy malware that\u00a0was installed on an Android 6.0.1 device owned by a Vice President at an unnamed company. Here is how the app installs itself when it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}