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1409
[ "There", "the", "user", "is", "prompted", "to", "download", "and", "install", "a", "Trojan", "imitating", "an", "Adobe", "Flash", "Player", "update", "." ]
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1410
[ "Svpeng", "is", "capable", "of", "doing", "lots", "of", "things", "." ]
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1411
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[ "This", "appears", "to", "be", "necessary", "to", "determine", "the", "number", "of", "banks", "the", "victim", "may", "use", "." ]
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1413
[ "Svpeng", "is", "only", "currently", "attacking", "clients", "of", "Russian", "banks", "." ]
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1414
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1415
[ "It", "steals", "SMS", "messages", "and", "information", "about", "voice", "calls", "." ]
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1416
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1417
[ "It", "steals", "money", "from", "the", "victim", "’", "s", "bank", "account", "." ]
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1418
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1419
[ "Customers", "have", "to", "send", "a", "set", "text", "message", "from", "their", "phone", "to", "a", "specific", "bank", "number", "." ]
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1420
[ "Svpeng", "sends", "the", "corresponding", "messages", "to", "the", "SMS", "services", "of", "two", "banks", "." ]
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1421
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1422
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1423
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1424
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1425
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1426
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1428
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1429
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1430
[ "In", "actual", "fact", ",", "the", "Trojan", "does", "not", "block", "anything", "and", "the", "phone", "can", "be", "used", "without", "any", "problems", "." ]
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1431
[ "It", "hides", "traces", "of", "its", "activity", "by", "masking", "the", "outgoing", "and", "incoming", "text", "messages", "and", "blocking", "calls", "and", "messages", "from", "numbers", "belonging", "to", "the", "bank", "." ]
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1432
[ "The", "Trojan", "gets", "the", "list", "of", "bank", "phone", "numbers", "from", "its", "C", "&", "C", "server", "." ]
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1433
[ "It", "protects", "itself", "from", "deletion", "by", "requesting", "Device", "Administrator", "rights", "during", "the", "installation", "." ]
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1434
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1435
[ "It", "is", "impossible", "to", "deprive", "it", "of", "these", "rights", "without", "the", "use", "of", "specialized", "tools", "(", "such", "as", "Kaspersky", "Internet", "Security", "for", "Android", ")", "." ]
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1436
[ "To", "protect", "itself", "from", "being", "removed", ",", "Svpeng", "uses", "a", "previously", "unknown", "vulnerability", "in", "Android", "." ]
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1437
[ "It", "uses", "the", "same", "trick", "to", "prevent", "the", "smartphone", "from", "being", "returned", "to", "its", "factory", "settings", "." ]
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1438
[ "The", "Trojan", "is", "distributed", "in", "Russia", "and", "CIS", "countries", "." ]
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1439
[ "But", ",", "as", "we", "have", "already", "mentioned", ",", "the", "criminals", "could", "easily", "turn", "their", "attention", "to", "users", "in", "other", "countries", "." ]
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1440
[ "Perkele", "and", "Wroba", "Foreign", "users", "have", "also", "been", "on", "the", "receiving", "end", "of", "several", "malicious", "innovations", "targeting", "bank", "accounts", "." ]
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1441
[ "The", "Perkele", "Android", "Trojan", "not", "only", "attacks", "Russian", "users", "but", "also", "clients", "of", "several", "European", "banks", "." ]
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1442
[ "It", "is", "of", "interest", "primarily", "because", "it", "operates", "in", "conjunction", "with", "various", "banking", "win32-Trojans", "." ]
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1443
[ "Its", "main", "task", "is", "to", "bypass", "the", "two-factor", "authentication", "of", "the", "client", "in", "the", "online", "banking", "system", "." ]
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1444
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1445
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1446
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1447
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1448
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1449
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1450
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1451
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1452
[ "Once", "it", "infects", "a", "device", ",", "Wroba", "behaves", "very", "aggressively", "." ]
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1453
[ "It", "searches", "for", "mobile", "banking", "applications", ",", "removes", "them", "and", "uploads", "counterfeit", "versions", "." ]
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1454
[ "From", "the", "outside", ",", "they", "are", "indistinguishable", "from", "the", "legitimate", "applications", "." ]
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1455
[ "However", ",", "they", "possess", "no", "banking", "functions", ",", "and", "merely", "steal", "the", "logins", "and", "passwords", "entered", "by", "users", "." ]
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1456
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1457
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1458
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1459
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1460
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1461
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1462
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1463
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1464
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1465
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1466
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1467
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1468
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1469
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1470
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1471
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1472
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1473
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1474
[ "The", "second", "stage", "The", "second", "stage", "apps", "contain", "the", "surveillanceware", "capabilities", "." ]
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1475
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1476
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1477
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1478
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1479
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1480
[ "What", "was", "taken", "The", "actors", "behind", "ViperRAT", "seem", "to", "be", "particularly", "interested", "in", "image", "data", "." ]
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1481
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1482
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1483
[ "This", "should", "be", "highly", "alarming", "to", "any", "government", "agency", "or", "enterprise", "." ]
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1484
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1485
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1486
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1487
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1488
[ "On", "attribution", "Media", "reporting", "on", "ViperRAT", "thus", "far", "attributes", "this", "surveillanceware", "tool", "to", "Hamas", "." ]
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1489
[ "Israeli", "media", "published", "the", "first", "reports", "about", "the", "social", "networking", "and", "social", "engineering", "aspects", "of", "this", "campaign", "." ]
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1490
[ "However", "it", "’", "s", "unclear", "whether", "organizations", "that", "later", "reported", "on", "ViperRAT", "performed", "their", "own", "independent", "research", "or", "simply", "based", "their", "content", "on", "the", "original", "Israeli", "report", "." ]
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1491
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1492
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1493
[ "Many", "of", "the", "default", "strings", "in", "this", "application", "are", "in", "Arabic", ",", "including", "the", "name", "." ]
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1494
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1495
[ "This", "leads", "us", "to", "believe", "this", "is", "another", "actor", "." ]
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1496
[ "What", "this", "means", "for", "you", "All", "Lookout", "customers", "are", "protected", "from", "this", "threat", "." ]
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1497
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1498
[ "Mobile", "devices", "are", "at", "the", "frontier", "of", "cyber", "espionage", ",", "and", "other", "criminal", "motives", "." ]
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1499
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