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Tria Stealer: Android Malware Hijacks WhatsApp and Telegram Accounts
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- Tria Stealer: Android Malware Hijacks WhatsApp and Telegram Accounts
- A Closer Look at the Tria Stealer Campaign
- Tria Stealer Trojan Exploits Android Phones To exfiltrate SMS messages
- Tria Stealer: Android Malware Hijacks whatsapp and Telegram Accounts
- A closer Look at the Tria Stealer Campaign
- Tria Stealer trojan Exploits Android Phones to Exfiltrate SMS Messages
A newly uncovered Android malware campaign, dubbed Tria Stealer, has been actively targeting users in Malaysia and Brunei since mid-2024, leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to distribute a malicious APK. The stealthy malware is designed to steal personal messages, hijack WhatsApp and Telegram accounts, and facilitate financial fraud.
Source: Security Online
A Closer Look at the Tria Stealer Campaign
Since mid-2024, Kaspersky researchers observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which thay have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples.
Source: Cybersecurity Review
Tria Stealer Trojan Exploits Android Phones To exfiltrate SMS messages
A newly discovered Android malware campaign, dubbed Tria Stealer, has been targeting users in Malaysia and Brunei as mid-2024. Leveraging fake wedding invitations as a lure, this Trojan steals sensitive data, including SMS messages, call logs, and app notifications, and exfiltrates it to attacker-controlled servers.
Kaspersky’s Radzi Adzi, Security Researcher with Kaspersky GReAT, stated, “This malicious application has been named ‘Tria Stealer’ by Kaspersky based on unique text strings found in the campaign’s samples. Our inquiry suggests that this stealer is likely operated by Indonesian-speaking threat actors, as we found artifacts written in Indonesian, namely several unique strings embedded in the malware and the naming pattern of the Telegram bots that are used by the attackers.”
Radzi continues, “Stealers can inflict serious financial losses and privacy breaches, and it’s very vital for individuals and corporate users to always be on alert and avoid blindly following requests that they get online, even if these come from someone they know.”
Founded in 1997, Kaspersky is a global cybersecurity and digital privacy company with more than a billion devices protected to date from emerging cyberthreats and targeted attacks.
Kaspersky has offered guidance to prevent falling victim to such mobile threats. They recommend downloading apps exclusively from official stores like the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore, where apps undergo checks and filtration. Users are advised to scrutinize app permissions diligently before granting them, especially for high-risk permissions such as message reading. The use of reliable security solutions is also encouraged to detect and manage malicious applications effectively.
Source: Kaspersky
Tria Stealer: Android Malware Hijacks whatsapp and Telegram Accounts
A newly uncovered Android malware campaign, dubbed Tria stealer, has been actively targeting users in Malaysia and Brunei since mid-2024. This campaign leverages wedding invitations as a lure to distribute a malicious APK. The stealthy malware is designed to steal personal messages, hijack WhatsApp and Telegram accounts, and facilitate financial fraud.
A closer Look at the Tria Stealer Campaign
Since mid-2024, Kaspersky researchers observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which they have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples.
Tria Stealer trojan Exploits Android Phones to Exfiltrate SMS Messages
Kaspersky has offered guidance to prevent falling victim to such mobile threats. They recommend downloading apps exclusively from official stores like the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore, where apps undergo checks and filtration.Users are advised to scrutinize app permissions diligently before granting them, especially for high-risk permissions such as message reading. The use of reliable security solutions is also encouraged to detect and manage malicious applications effectively.
