Security experts at Lacoon Mobile Security detected a malicious app dubbed Windseeker which uses rare injection and hooking techniques to spy on users.
Windseeker is a malicious Android app which attracted experts at Lacoon Mobile Security, the principal characteristics of the app are its injection and hooking techniques used to spy on mobile users.The techniques are rare in the mobile ecosystem, Windseeker runs on rooted Android devices and allows attackers to spy on popular instant messaging apps in China, WeChat and QQ.
The discovery is anyway, worrying as remarked by Avi Bashan, CISO at Lacoon Mobile Security, who explained that these kind of threat could be used to spy data of any other application.
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