Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab report: Permission to Spy: An Analysis of Android Malware Targeting Tibetans
April 1, 2013 Key Findings A compromised version of Kakao Talk, an Android-based mobile messaging client, was sent in a highly-targeted email to a prominent individual in the Tibetan community. This email message repurposed a legitimate private email message sent by an information security expert in the Tibetan community to a member of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile. This malware is designed to send a user’s contacts, SMS message history, and cellular network location to attackers. The cellular network information gathered by this malware would only be useful to actors with detailed knowledge of the cellular communication provider’s technical infrastructure. The compromised application was not detected as malware by any of the three mobile malware scanning applications we tested. Full report is here: https://citizenlab.org/2013/04/permission-to-spy-an-analysis-of-android-malware-targeting-tibetans/ There is a Forbes news article about the report here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/04/01/evidence-mounts-that-chinese-government-hackers-spread-android-malware/ Regards Ron Ronald Deibert Director, the Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto (416) 946-8916 PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt http://deibert.citizenlab.org/ twitter.com/citizenlab [email protected]
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