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Two Mobile Banking Trojans Used Facebook Parse as C&C Server

  • December 15, 2015
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By Catalin Cimpanu    15 Dec 2015
 

Attackers carry out SMS fraud via the infected phones

 
The Android/OpFake and the Android/Marry malware families, two banking trojans targeting mobile devices, have (improperly) stored their C&C servers inside Facebook Parse, the company's BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) offering.
 
BaaS is a cloud-based service that provides mobile app developers with ready-made tools, in the form of APIs, on which they can build the backend (server-side section) of their Android or iOs applications.
 
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                         Number of stolen credit card numbers.
 
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