![]() ![]() Apps about developing six-pack abs and logging the amount of water a person drinks were included. “These are template-based applications-not very high quality,” says Joao Santos, a security researcher at the company. The company identified 39 Android, iOS, and TV box apps that were involved. This is an app-based fraud element, which has been present on both the TV boxes as well as Android phones and iPhones, Reid says. Then there’s what Human Security calls Peachpit. “And for manufacturers, it's really difficult to detect.” “It’s easy for them to infiltrate the supply chain,” he says. “There was a tablet in one of the museums somewhere in Europe,” Yarochkin says, adding he believes it is possible that swaths of Android systems may have been impacted, including in cars. Based on Trend Micro’s network data, Yarochkin believes these figures to be credible. ![]() “They were claiming that they have over 20 million devices infected worldwide, with up to 2 million devices being online at any point of time,” he says. Trend Micro has found a “front end company” for the group it investigated in China, Yarochkin says. “The infection of devices is quite similar,” Yarochkin says. Fyodor Yarochkin, a senior threat researcher at security firm Trend Micro, says the company has seen two Chinese threat groups that have used backdoored Android devices-one it has researched deeply, the other is the one Human Security looked at. The findings tally with those of other researchers and ongoing investigations. ![]() Those behind the scheme were selling access to residential networks commercially, the company’s report says, claiming to have access to more than 10 million home IP addresses and 7 million mobile IP addresses. This includes advertising fraud residential proxy services, where the group behind the scheme sell access to your home network the creation of fake Gmail and WhatsApp accounts using the connections and remote code installation. Human Security tracked multiple types of fraud linked to the compromised devices. ![]()
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