Android Users from Australia Targeted By Trojan

Malware researchers at Cisco’s Talos Intelligence are warning Australian consumers and businesses about Android malware specifically targeting users Android users from the country.

Android users from Australia are reportedly targeted by Android malware, according to the malware researchers at Cisco's Talos Intelligence.According to the researchers, a crook sells access to a banking trojan named Android Gustuff bot in an underground forum, so that other criminals get a chance to hook online customers from Australian banks.

The online advertisement was consistent with the researchers’ analysis of the infrastructure used to communicate with this particular version of Gustuff. When probed deeper, the researchers found that most requests to the tainted infrastructure came from devices located in Australia.

When the malicious app is installed, it sends a request, but that is just only the first stage, in which the affected device is sending SMS with the URL to the victim's contact list. In the second stage, the requests occur during installation of the malicious app, however, that’s at the first stage, which involves the affected device sending SMS with a URL to the victim’s contact list.

The infection that could threaten bank account security happens in a second stage, that is when a contact has opened a link allowing a remote server assesses whether the device fits the profile for delivering the actual banking malware to it.

The malicious app's overlays suggest that Australian baking customers are the targets as those overlays bear likeliness to the real Aussie banking apps' login interface.The Talos researchers state that the culprits is “is aggressively spreading the malware” as the initial request for the malicious apps were skyrocketing.