Inside the eXotic Visit espionage campaign – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Could your messaging app of choice have been authored by a threat actor known as Virtual Invaders? As described by ESET researchers this week, this is what happened to the victims of an ongoing and targeted Android espionage campaign called eXotic Visit that began in late 2021 and pose as messaging services. The malicious apps – which were distributed through dedicated websites and even Google Play – offered functional messaging services as bait, but came bundled with the XploitSPY malware. …

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