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Titre: [Trend]New AndroRAT Exploits Dated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Allows Permanent Rooting
Posté par: igor51 le mars 10, 2018, 19:00:06

New AndroRAT Exploits Dated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Allows Permanent Rooting

Trend Micro detected a new variant of Android Remote Access Tool (AndroRAT) (identified as ANDROIDOS_ANDRORAT.HRXC) that has the ability to inject root exploits to perform malicious tasks such as silent installation, shell command execution, WiFi password collection, and screen capture. This AndroRAT targets CVE-2015-1805, a publicly disclosed vulnerability in 2016 that allows attackers to penetrate a number of older Android devices to perform its privilege escalation.

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Source: New AndroRAT Exploits Dated Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, Allows Permanent Rooting (http://feeds.trendmicro.com/~r/Anti-MalwareBlog/~3/6yrDWY0Dfe8/)