ESET Research finds new variant of FurBall Android malware – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

This week, ESET researchers published their analysis of a new variant of the Android malware known as FurBall that APT-C-50 has used in its wider Domestic Kitten campaign. The campaign is known to take aim at Iranian citizens in mobile surveillance campaigns and the same applies to this new FurBall version. Since June of last year, the spyware has been distributed under the guise of a translation app – via a copycat version of an Iranian website that provides translated …

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