The new Android Stalkerware also intercepts text messages.
Amidst all the global panic surrounding a plague, it turns out that malicious attackers are still keen to do their job. In the latest, a new stalkerware named MonitorMinor has been discovered by Kaspersky which has the ability to steal user data and also track it.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, stalkerware is basically any program that someone may install on your device to spy on you, this could be a spouse or perhaps any other family member. This is essentially what separates it from spyware which is not installed deliberately but finds its way through vulnerabilities in the victim’s device instead.
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To start with, MonitorMinor operates by infecting the system partition through its installation. Once done, it can intercept and read messages from a range of famous communication apps including Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, Kik, Hangouts, Viber, Skype, Snapchat & many more.
This is in addition to the traditional functionality found in such malware which is to only intercept SIM messages and calling data along with leaking the victim’s location making it a much more sophisticated case.
Now, one may wonder, how does it establish a direct app-to-app communication channel to access the data from the aforementioned apps when this is clearly prohibited in Android’s Sandbox protection? It does so by installing a superuser(SU) utility that grants it root access bypassing the traditional contro ..
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