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First Tor-Based Android Malware Spotted in the Wild

The number of variants of malicious software aimed at mobile devices has reportedly risen about 185% in less than a year. Malware dubbed as ‘The Trojan is running from Tor domain and working on the functionality of an open source Tor client for Android mobile devices, called ‘Backdoor. AndroidOS.Torec.a’, using Tor hidden service protocol for stealth communication with Command-and-Control servers. The Trojan is capable ofinformation including’retrieveSMSs to a specified number, can make USSD requests, stealing device information including’the phone number, country, IMEI, model, version of OS’

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/first-tor-based-android-malware-spotted.html

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