Spearphone Side Channel Attack Information
Spearphone attack is a social engineering attack researchers have been finding many ways to eliminate Malware Apps and systems that cause damage to the Security System of normal people. In the play store, millions of apps are available in which many malware apps are also in the list.
So the experts detect the app and destroys it. The Spearphone attack is a attack in which there is a two way conversation between people and if the person turn's on the loudspeaker then the Accelerometer, a sensor which sense the movement turns on and the person who doesn't know that there is a bug in the Sensor will be unaware that a hacker sends a Malicious Code that the sensor will track the data and send to the hacker. The hacker can use the data to send to third party apps for earning money.
Several apps have this bug and even knowing this, they are available on play store in high rating. They use the bug to track sensitive data like banking details, credit card, debit card details etc, which they can use for money in Advertising companies. After the victim installs these apps, they send a fake system update to the user and if the user install's it, then a Trojan called Anubis is installed and it tracks all the data in the form of a virus called Key Loggers which tracks the key's used by the victim and sends it to the hacker. The victim will be unaware of it.
The following are the two apps detected by play store which uses this bug, but there are millions of apps available like this.
The chart shows the data of information attacked in the country region and it is seen that japan is widely affected by this attack. Because Japan's people may be widely using these apps.
0 Comments