PARIS, Jun. 4 (Benin News/EP) –
Europol a dismantled the FluBot infrastructure.a Trojan horse for Android devices, distributed by SMS and posing as a delivery company to deceive its victims, which has had a significant impact in Spain in the last two years.
An operation involving eleven countries, including Spain, succeeded in May in dismantling the infrastructure used by the criminals behind FluBot, as reported in a Europol press release.
It is one of the fastest distributed mobile malware to date, according to the European agency, with a high incidence in Spain and Finland since its discovery in 2020.
FluBot is a banking trojan pour Android impersonate a delivery company to deceive users of mobile devices, with which it comes into contact by text message. The text message warns of a problem with a suspected order and provides a link to check the status of the shipment.
The malware uses this channel to trick victims into downloading a malicious application. Its danger lies in the fact that uses the term “accessibility”.an Android component that observes and controls the device, to gain the ability to display overlaid windows that can be presented on top of whatever is on the screen, making it easier to steal data from, for example, fake banking portals, and makes it more difficult to uninstall.
Cybersecurity company ESET first warned of its activity at the end of 2020, when it did not yet have a name, and then in March last year, during the press conference of the European Commission. a campaign in Spain posing as the company MRW. By the end of the month, it had infected 60,000 handsets worldwide and harvested 11 million phone numbers to continue spreading via text messages, as Avast warned.
