In Photos: Central agency issues advisory over android malware `Daam`
Updated On: 26 May, 2023 06:53 PM IST | Editor
The national cyber security agency in its latest advisory said that an Android malware called `Daam` that infects mobile phones and hacks into sensitive data like call records, contacts, history and camera has been found to be spreading. All pictures: Istock
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The national cyber security agency in its latest advisory said that an Android malware called `Daam` that infects mobile phones and hacks into sensitive data like call records, contacts, history and camera has been found to be spreading. All pictures: Istock
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The agency is the federal technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guard the cyber space against phishing and hacking assaults and similar online attacks.
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The Android botnet gets distributed through third-party websites or applications downloaded from untrusted/unknown sources, the agency said.
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"Once it is placed in the device, the malware tries to bypass the security check of the device and after a successful attempt, it attempts to steal sensitive data, and permissions such as reading history and bookmarks, killing background processing, and reading call logs etc," PTI quoted from the advisory.
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`Daam` is also capable of hacking phone call recordings, contacts, gaining access to camera, modifying device passwords, capturing screenshots, stealing SMSes, downloading/uploading files, etc. and transmitting to the C2 (command-and-control) server from the victim`s (affected persons) device, the advisory said.
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The malware, it said, utilises the AES (advanced encryption standard) encryption algorithm to code files in the victim`s device. Other files are then deleted from the local storage, leaving only the encrypted files with ".enc" extension and a ransom note that says "readme_now.txt", the advisory said.
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