Security specialists have warned Android smartphone owners to be on their guard against newly discovered malware that steals SMS messages and emails them to cyber criminals in China.
The malware is part of what is described by tech security company FireEye as of the "largest and advanced" mobile botnets to date
botnet, which is dubbed "MisoSMS," has already been used in several adware campaigns.
MisoSMS infects Android systems by deploying a class of malicious Android app.
Each of the campaigns has been found to leverage web mail as its (CnC) infrastructure & the CnC infrastructure comprises over 450 matchless malicious electronic mail accounts.
The mobile malware masquerades as an Android settings app used for administrative tasks. When executed, it secretly steals the user personal SMS messages & emails them to a command-and-control (CnC) infrastructure hosted in China, FireEye warned.
The attackers logged in from Korea & mainland China, among other locations, to periodically read the stolen SMS messages.
"This threat highlights the necessity for greater cross-country & cross-organisational efforts to take down giant malicious campaigns," FireEye reported
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