Hong Kong protesters targeted with iOS, Droid spyware

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China suspected of crafting spyware RAT tailored to Occupy Central

By Darren Pauli, 1 Oct 2014  Hong Kong activists rallying for electoral freedom are being targeted by an Android and iOS remote access trojan.
Israeli security firm Lacoon Mobile Security spotted the Xsser mRAT spyware being distributed under the guise of an app to help coordinate the Occupy Central protests in the autonomous region.
 Protestors were being targeted with the iOS trojan and a related Android spyware, the latter of which was sent over WhatsApp messages under the guise of local coder activist group Code4HK, according to researchers Shalom Bublil, Daniel Brodie, and Avi Bashan.
Founder Ohad Bobrov said the manufacture of a targeted iOS and Android app appeared to indicate a well-resourced attacker, possibly the Chinese Government.
 
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by Pierluigi Paganini on October 2nd, 2014
 

Security experts speculate that the Chinese government is using mobile spyware, MITM attacks and Internet monitoring to control Hong Kong protesters.

In the last days I published the news regarding a spyware used to spy on activists in Hong Kong, a Fake Occupy Central app is targeting the smartphones of the activists belonging to the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement. The malicious app  has circulated online claiming to be an instrument to coordinate the members of the Occupy Central pro-democracy movement. The spyware is disguised as an Android App, dubbed Code4HK, designed by a group of coders trying to improve government transparency in Hong Kong.
 
 “The Xsser mRAT represents a fundamental shift by nation-state cybercriminals from compromising traditional PC systems to targeting mobile devices,”


 
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