Advanced mobile surveillanceware, made in Russia, found in the wild

'Researchers have discovered some of the most advanced and
full-featured mobile surveillanceware ever seen. Dubbed Monokle and
used in the wild since at least March 2016, the Android-based
application was developed by a Russian defense contractor that was
sanctioned in 2016 for helping that country’s Main Intelligence
Directorate meddle in the 2016 US presidential election.

Monokle uses several novel tools, including the ability to modify the
Android trusted-certificate store and a command-and-control network
that can communicate over Internet TCP ports, email, text messages, or
phone calls. The result: Monokle provides a host of surveillance
capabilities that work even when an Internet connection is
unavailable.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/advanced-mobile-surveillanceware-made-in-russia-found-in-the-wild/

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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