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From Crypto Currency Mining To DDos Attacks: The New Multi-Featured Mobile Trojan Loapi Discovered

Loapi Trojan is being spread through advertising campaigns under the guise of antivirus solutions or apps for adults. Once installed, applications request device admin rights and then discreetly initiate communications with command and control servers to install additional modules. The architecture includes the following modules: Adware, SMS module, Proxy module, Web crawler module and Monero miner. As well as its excessive volume of features, Loapi has the capacity to protect itself from the malware. The surprisingly unexpected risk which this malware brings is that even though it cant cause direct financial damage to the user by stealing their credit card data, it can simply destroy the phone.”]

Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/news/crypto-currency-mining-ddos-attacks-new-multi-featured-mobile-trojan-loapi-discovered/

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