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EFF, Lookout Discover Nation State Mobile Espionage On Global Scale
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EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin said that:
People in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Lebanon, and France have been hit by Dark Caracal. Targets include military personnel, activists, journalists, and lawyers, and the types of stolen data range from call records and audio recordings to documents and photos. This is a very large, global campaign, focused on mobile devices. Mobile is the future of spying, because phones are full of so much data about a person’s day-to-day life.
Mike Murray, Vice President of Security Intelligence at Lookout, also noted that Dark Caracal is one of the first Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaigns they’ve uncovered for mobile, and also that nation-state actors seem to be making mobile the primary platform target for which they develop cyber espionage malware.
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Dark Caracal’s targets are typical for threats presumably carried out by nation-states, including military personnel, enterprises, medical professionals, activists, journalists, lawyers, and educational institutions.
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Once the malware was loaded on a mobile device, it was able to steal SMS messages, including personal texts, two-factor authentication and one-time password codes, receipts and airline reservations, and company communications. It could also steal contact lists, call logs, names of installed applications, browsing history, names of Wi-Fi access points, login credentials for certain apps, documents, audio recordings, and photos.
People in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Lebanon, and France have been hit by Dark Caracal. Targets include military personnel, activists, journalists, and lawyers, and the types of stolen data range from call records and audio recordings to documents and photos. This is a very large, global campaign, focused on mobile devices. Mobile is the future of spying, because phones are full of so much data about a person’s day-to-day life.
Mike Murray, Vice President of Security Intelligence at Lookout, also noted that Dark Caracal is one of the first Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) campaigns they’ve uncovered for mobile, and also that nation-state actors seem to be making mobile the primary platform target for which they develop cyber espionage malware.
.
.
Dark Caracal’s targets are typical for threats presumably carried out by nation-states, including military personnel, enterprises, medical professionals, activists, journalists, lawyers, and educational institutions.
.
.
Once the malware was loaded on a mobile device, it was able to steal SMS messages, including personal texts, two-factor authentication and one-time password codes, receipts and airline reservations, and company communications. It could also steal contact lists, call logs, names of installed applications, browsing history, names of Wi-Fi access points, login credentials for certain apps, documents, audio recordings, and photos.
Much more at the jump:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/eff-lookout-dark-caracal-espionage,36369.html
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