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Latest wave of Cerberus targets English-speaking users

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  Following the recent discoveries shared by @MalwareHunterTeam and @LukasStefanko on Twitter, I took a closer look at the ongoing Cerberus Android banking Trojan campaign. It has recently reared its head to target English-speaking users via a fake food delivery app: (Figure 1 - The fake website that drops food-delivery.apk) (Figure 2 - Downloading and granting permissions to the Trojanised application) If successfully downloaded and permissions are granted, the user's device is infected with a banking Trojan that shares multiple similarities to the infamous Cerberus Android banking Trojan. Further investigation in this campaign revealed the attacker's infrastructure through a mutual host, gTLD (.top), and the same registrant details.  Virus Total Graph of the campaign: Themes of Trojanised Applications distributed by this Cerberus operator: Cerberus web injects database: (Figure 3 - Picture of the Cerberus web injects database for reference) Analysis: The Cerberu...

Turkey targeted by Cerberus and Anubis Android banking Trojan campaigns

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I recently set out to become more acquainted with Maltego, a useful program for open-source intelligence (OSINT) and forensics, developed by Paterva. I also noticed there is an ongoing campaign against Turkey using Android banking Trojans such as Anubis and Cerberus. Both are Malware-as-a-Service offerings that supply a builder and mobile remote access Trojan (MRAT) to steal credentials from Android users. Security researchers such as @MalwareHunterTeam, @ReBensk, @pr3wtd, and @mertcangokgoz, and others have all recently shared new samples of Cerberus and Anubis targeting users in Turkey with mobile data “gifts” that are offered from their mobile carriers due to COVID-19. Various websites are registered hosting links to fake apps, which were downloaded from the threat actor’s GitLab or BitBucket repositories. These apps are Android packages (.APK) that can be distributed via SMS, instant messaging app, on Twitter, via email, and other social engineering techniques. With the ...

OSINT Investigation: Cerberus and the INPS

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On 1 April 2020, the Italian National Institute for Social Security (INPS) experienced an unexpected outage on its website, leaving many Italians distressed and confused. This is due to the fact that the Italian government has offered a rescue package of €600 to assist with those experiencing hardship during lockdown, during the coronavirus pandemic. However, with the website being offline those who need help are temporarily unable to get it. Suddenly, a tweet from the infamous Anonymous Italy (@Anon_ITA) led some to believe that the site was taken down due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from the activist group. Once the translation is made, however, it becomes clear that the site was taken down via the IT administrators' own means, not because of a DDoS attack, Anonymous Italy admits. As of 6 April 2020 the site was still down, DDay Italy then investigated the true meaning behind its outage and found that because the site was placed behind the Aka...