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14 October 2015 Łukasz Siewierski #actors #android #e-banking #malware #postal group #ransomware #trojan
The Postal Group
During SECURE conference we have presented our findings about criminal group, which we called “Postal Group” (“Grupa pocztowa”) based on theris modus operandi. Detailed research regarding the group have been gathered in the form of report available under the link below. PDF During the SECURE conference, we presented a talk …
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GMBot: Android poor man’s “webinjects”
Recently, we obtained a sample of a new Android banking trojan, named GMBot, which tries to be self-contained (i.e. does not need Windows counterpart) and uses application overlay as a poor man’s webinjects substitute. This malware uses known and common techniques, but implements them in a way similar …
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Smoke Loader poses as an Office plugin
Zaufana Trzecia Strona – a Polish security news portal – informed about a new attack on Polish user’s (link is in Polish) that used a Microsoft Office plugin install wizard as a decoy. In reality, the user not only installed the plugin, but also a malware called Smoke Loader. It allows …
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Slave, Banatrix and ransomware
In March 2015, S21sec published their analysis of the new e-banking trojan horse targetting Polish users. They named it “Slave”, because such a string was part of a path to one of the shared libraries. We think (in part thanks to the kernelmode.info thread) that Slave was made by …
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What’s new, security-wise, in Android KitKat?
On the 31st of October Google released a new version of the Android Operating System – 4.4 called KitKat. This version introduces a number of new features, including a handful of security improvements. It also introduces a new approach to SMS and MMS handling, which breaks the compatibility of some …
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