New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices

New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices

A new Android malware named Manic targeting users in multiple European countries has a fallback data exfiltration mechanism that uses nearby infected devices.

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications. "Manic sits at the intersection of Android banking malware and mobile spyware, combining financial-fraud This article has been indexed from The Hacker News Re…

New Android Malware Steals Banking PINs and Relays Data Through Someone Else’s Infected Phones

A newly discovered Android malware family named Manic combines banking fraud with full-scale spyware, and it comes with a trick researchers rarely see in the wild: when an infected phone has no internet connection of its own, it can quietly borrow one from another infected device nearby. The malware was identified by ThreatFabric’s Mobile Threat Intelligence team, which describes Manic as sitting at the intersection of Android banking trojans an…

Manic: Blend between Banking Malware & Spyware

ThreatFabric's Mobile Threat Intelligence (MTI) Team has identified a new Android threat activ