Security News > 2020 > April > PhantomLance: Vietnamese Cyberspies Targeted Android Users for Years
2020-04-28 15:47
Kaspersky's security researchers have uncovered a long-running spyware campaign targeting Android users that bears the marks of Vietnam-linked hacking group OceanLotus.
Multiple variants of the malware were identified by BlackBerry researchers too, who included information on them in a report published in October 2019.
The security researchers observed roughly 300 infection attempts since 2016, targeting Android devices in India, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia, with Nepal, Myanmar and Malaysia also affected.
Kaspersky identified code similarities with an older OceanLotus campaign targeting Android users in Vietnam and China between 2014 and 2017.
Thus, the researchers assess with medium confidence that OceanLotus is behind PhantomLance.