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The Joker Trojan plays the Google PlayStore

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The Joker Trojan (also known as the Bread Trojan) is an Android dropper with spyware capabilities. It is often hidden within advertisements to trick users into clicking on and downloading the malware. Usually, it only targets SIM cards with specific country codes, geo-fencing the victims. It is used by financial attackers to harvest a user's device information, contact list, text messages, and will sign them up to premium subscriptions. APK Lab recently disclosed that two available apps that contain the Joker Trojan managed to sneak past protection systems and were uploaded to the Google Play Store. The apps containing the Trojan, called ‘Speed Message’ and ‘Botmatic Messages’, currently have over 11,000 installs combined: VirusTotal Graph: Once installed, the malware contacts the attacker’s C2 server and pulls the malicious payload. Further investigation into the IP address of the attacker’s C2 server led me to find three more apps, called ‘Playful Game Station’, ‘Watch SMS’, ...

Deep-dive: The Magecart Collective

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The Magecart collective is a myriad of distinct cybercriminal groups which are strategically inserting credit card skimming code on to compromised e-commerce websites, at an unprecedented rate and with frightening success. Magecart achieved infamy after two data heists from Ticketmaster and British Airways. Hundreds of thousands of customers’ card payment information had been lifted via a few lines of JavaScript code injected onto the pages where customers fill out their credit card numbers. (Figure 1) Figure 1 Magecart attacks are designed to evade detection systems like a web application firewall  (WAF), antivirus solutions, and traditional firewalls, by executing their inserted code in the browser. This attack works by compromising third-party services, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), shopping cart software, and WordPress plugins among others to insert their code on to the page where customers fill out their credit card information.  This inserted co...