New Android Trojan ‘SoumniBot’ Evades Detection with Clever Tricks

April 18, 2024 at 07:36AM A new Android trojan named SoumniBot is targeting users in South Korea by exploiting vulnerabilities in manifest extraction. It evades analysis through unconventional approaches, including obfuscating the Android manifest. The malware collects sensitive data, manipulates device settings, and searches for digital signature certificates. Its developers successfully complicate detection through insufficiently … Read more

SoumniBot malware exploits Android bugs to evade detection

April 17, 2024 at 05:45PM The newly discovered Android banking malware ‘SoumniBot’ employs unusual obfuscation techniques to evade standard security measures found in Android phones. It exploits weaknesses in the Android manifest extraction and parsing procedure, allowing it to perform info-stealing operations. Once launched, SoumniBot exfiltrates a variety of data and is controlled by commands … Read more