Boxer SMS trojan: malware as a global service
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| Boxer SMS trojan: malware as a global service | |
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| Botnet | Boxer |
| Malware | |
| Botnet/malware group | |
| Exploit kits | |
| Services | |
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| Operation/Working group | |
| Vulnerability | |
| CCProtocol | |
| Date | 2012 / 2012-11-29 |
| Editor/Conference | ESET |
| Link | http://blog.eset.com/2012/11/29/android-boxer-a-worldwide-sms-trojan blog.eset.com (blog.eset.com Archive copy) |
| Author | Pablo Ramos |
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Abstract
“ Your Android smartphone could be producing profit for criminals, and here is how: using piece of malware called Android/TrojanSMS.Boxer.AA, a malicious program for Google's Android mobile Operating System that targets 63 different countries, reading the MCC (Mobile Country Code) and MNC (Mobile Network Code) codes from the infected device. In December 2011 twenty-two malicious applications were discovered in the Android Market (Now Google Play) that were able to reach users all of these countries.
Bibtex
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editor = {ESET},
author = {Pablo Ramos},
title = {Boxer SMS trojan: malware as a global service},
date = {29},
month = Nov,
year = {2012},
howpublished = {\url{http://blog.eset.com/2012/11/29/android-boxer-a-worldwide-sms-trojan blog.eset.com}},
}