An international law enforcement operation in which 11 countries are involved has come to a head in the takedown of a prominent mobile malware threat known as FluBot.
Europol said that this android malware is spreading aggressive SMS, stealing bank details, passwords, and other information from infected smartphones to the whole world.
Authorities from different countries like Australia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the US are included in the “complex investigation”.
The other name of Cabassous, which emerged in the wild in Dec 2020, hiding its crooked intent behind the veneer of seemingly innocuous package tracking applications like DHL, FedEx, and Correos.
Firstly it spreads through smishing messages that trick unaware recipients into clicking on a download link of malware-laced apps.
Once it is launched, the app can request access to Androids Accessibility Service to secret siphon bank account credentials and other information which is stored in cryptocurrency apps.
The malware leveraged its access to contacts that are stored in the devices which are not affected to spread the infection further by sending messages which contain links to the FluBot malware to worsen this matter.
Recently the FluBot campaigns have also evolved to target IOS users, but users trying to get access to the infected link are phishing sites and subscription scam
This infrastructure is now under the control of law enforcement, putting a stop to the destructive spiral,”
It is a great accomplishment that the FluBot threat actors do have not resilient strategies.
Sahin said the impact on the mobile threat landscape is very less because FluBot is not the strongest Android banking.