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New Android Malware called BlackRock can Steal Card Data and Passwords from 337 Apps Including Uber and Gmail

Saradhi Koradala by Saradhi Koradala
July 18, 2020
Reading Time: 2 mins read

Another strain of Android malware has developed that can take information from in any event 337 Android applications. Called BlackRock, this malware was first seen in May this year and found by a versatile security organization called “ThreatFabric”. 

Scientists at ThreatFabric said that BlackRock depends on the spilled source code of another malware strain called (Xerxes itself depends on other malware strains). BlackRock has been reinforced with extra highlights, particularly ones that help take passwords and Mastercard data, as per a report by ZDNet. 

BlackRock works like most other Android banking trojans aside from that it can target more applications, 337 to be exact, than every one of its antecedents. It can take both login accreditations and furthermore brief the casualty to enter Visa subtleties if the applications bolster monetary exchanges. 

ThreatFabric says that BlackRock’s information assortment occurs through a technique called ‘overlays’ that includes distinguishing when a client is attempting to collaborate with a genuine application and indicating a phony window on top that gathers the login subtleties and card information previously permitting the client to really begin utilizing the fundamental authentic application. 

BlackRock additionally has overlays for dating applications, shopping, a way of life, news and efficiency applications too. The full rundown of the applications that BlackRock can target can be seen here and incorporate any semblance of Gmail, Uber, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and so forth. 

BlackRock utilizes the Accessibility include then on to give itself access to other Android consents and uses an Android DPC (a gadget strategy controller, which is essentially a work profile) to give itself administrator access to the gadget. At that point it utilizes this entrance to show the overlays. It does not end here. 

Types of activities where BlackRock Malware exist:

  • Overlaying: Dynamic (Local infuses got from C2) 
  • Keylogging 
  • SMS reaping: SMS posting 
  • SMS reaping: SMS sending 
  • Device information assortment 
  •  Remote activities: Screen-locking 
  • Self-security: Hiding the application symbol 
  • Self-security: Preventing evacuation 
  • Notifications assortment 
  • Grant consents 
  • AV recognition 

BlackRock is right now being disseminated in the pretense of all Google update bundles offered by outsider locales and luckily has not turned up on the Google Play Store yet. 

Since more seasoned Android malwares have figured out how to sidestep Google’s application audit process, soon BlackRock is sent on the Play Store.

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