Tag: maria jose erquiaga
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VB2019 paper: Geost botnet. The story of the discovery of a new Android banking trojan from an OpSec error
OpSec mistakes are what lead to many malware discoveries, but in the case of the Geost Android botnet the mistake was a really interesting one: its operators were using another botnet, HtBot, to manage infected devices, not realising that researchers were analysing some HtBot-infected hosts. This led researchers Sebastian García, Maria Jose Erquiaga and Anna…