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A newly discovered Android remote access Trojan (RAT) is specifically targeting users in Brazil, Kaspersky reports.  Called BRATA, which stands for Brazilian RAT Android, the malware could theoretically be used to target any other Android user, should the cybercriminals behind it want to. Widespread since January 2019, the threat was primarily hosted in Google Play, but also in alternative Android app stores.  The malware targets Android 5.0 or later and infects devices via push notifications on compromised websites, messages delivered via WhatsApp or SMS, or sponsored links in Google searches. After discovering the first RAT samples in January and February 2019, Kaspersky has observed over 20 different variants to date, in Google Play alone, most posing as updates to WhatsApp.  One of the topics ab...

A newly discovered Android remote access Trojan (RAT) is specifically targeting users in Brazil, Kaspersky reports.  Called BRATA, which stands for Brazilian RAT Android, the malware could theoretically be used to target any other Android user, should the cybercriminals behind it want to. Widespread since January 2019, the threat was primarily hosted in Google Play, but also in alternative Android app stores.  The malware targets Android 5.0 or later and infects devices via push notifications on compromised websites, messages delivered via WhatsApp or SMS, or sponsored links in Google searches. After discovering the first RAT samples in January and February 2019, Kaspersky has observed over 20 different variants to date, in Google Play alone, most posing as updates to WhatsApp.  One of the topics abused by BRATA is the CVE-2019-3568 WhatsApp patch. The infamous fake WhatsApp update had over 10,000 downloads in the official Android store when it was removed, Kaspersk...