An Extortion Campaign Recently Started Using A New Piece Of Spyware Cybers Guards
The initiative focuses on infecting illegal sites, such as those selling escort services, with iOS and Android to steal personal details, possibly with the intention of blackmailing or extorting victims. The spyware, called Goontact, usually masquerades as secure messaging software. It targets a wide variety of data for exfiltration after it has compromised a device, including device identifiers and phone numbers, contacts, SMS messages, external storage images, and location information....