{"id":6323,"date":"2019-10-10T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:53:18","slug":"this-huge-android-trojan-malware-campaign-was-discovered-after-the-gang-behind-it-made-basic-security-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/10\/this-huge-android-trojan-malware-campaign-was-discovered-after-the-gang-behind-it-made-basic-security-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"This huge Android trojan malware campaign was discovered after the gang behind it made basic security mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber attackers infected 800,000 users with banking information stealing malware \u2013 but mistakes have allowed researchers to look behind the scenes of a successful hacking campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A giant botnet and banking trojan malware operation has infected hundreds of thousands of Android users since at least 2016 \u2013 but mistakes by the group have revealed details of the campaign and how they operate.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the Geost botnet after a name repeatedly found in the attackers&#8217; command and control servers, the operation has been discovered by researchers from Czech Technical University, UNCUYO University in Argentina, and cybersecurity company Avast, who <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.avast.com\/avast-researcher-helps-expose-banking-botnet-geost\">detailed their findings<\/a> at the Virus Bulletin 2019 conference in London.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is believed to have infected up to 800,000 Android users and has potentially provided the attackers with access to bank accounts along with information about the names of victims, their type of phone and their location.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/a-huge-android-trojan-malware-campaign-was-discovered-after-the-gang-behind-it-made-basic-security-mistakes\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber attackers infected 800,000 users with banking information stealing malware \u2013 but mistakes have allowed researchers to look behind the scenes of a successful hacking campaign. A giant botnet and banking trojan malware operation has infected hundreds of thousands of Android users since at least 2016 \u2013 but mistakes by the group have revealed details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22923,"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":[805801],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-social-engineering-encoding-and-encryption","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}