New Whiffy Recon malware with infected device locating capability emerges

BleepingComputer reports that attacks with the Smoke Loader botnet have been observed to deploy the novel Whiffy Recon malware, which leverages Wi-Fi scanning and Google's geolocation API to determine where compromised devices are located.

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