Researchers at Bitdefender have identified a new Android malware titled, Triout which acts as a framework for turning legitimate applications into spyware. It is used to inject extensive surveillance capabilities into seemingly benign applications. Triout is found bundled with a repackaged app; with capabilities including recording phone calls, logging incoming text messages, recoding videos, taking pictures and collecting GPS coordinates. Then broadcasting all of that back to an attacker-controlled C2 (command and control) server. The sample’s first appearance seems to be 15 May 2018, when it was uploaded to VirusTotal.
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