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Roaming Mantis mobile smishing campaign spreads, gets updated features.
The mobile malware campaign known as Roaming Mantis largely left the news cycle after making a splash in 2018, but Kaspersky is reporting that some new life has been breathed into the campaign in the form of new features and new targets: This time it's set its sights on France and Germany.
Roaming Mantis is a mobile device smishing campaign that uses several different Android trojans to take control of Android devices.
As mentioned above, Roaming Mantis spreads through phishing text messages that Kaspersky said contain a short description and an obfuscated link.
Once installed, the Roaming Mantis malware is able to do a variety of things to the infected device: Send text messages, ping the device, read the state of the phone, forward calls, lock the device, and two new ones Kaspersky detected as part of the 2021 updates and targeting changes: Stealing individual photos or entire galleries.
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