GPS, or Global Positioning Systems, have become a staple of our lives – especially in the transportation sector. Whether you are broadcasting your location for a rideshare or trying to find the quickest way to avoid traffic on your commute it seems that paper maps and printed directions have become a thing of the past. It comes as no surprise that the more we rely on interconnected devices the more susceptible to cyber attacks we become. This is exemplified through the Cybersecurity & Infras
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A recently discovered Mobile Remote Access Trojan (MRAT) can take control of the infected Android devices and exfiltrate a multitude of user data. Called Rogue, the Trojan is the work of Triangulum and HeXaGoN Dev, known Android malware authors that have been selling their malicious products on underground markets for several years.
Triangulum first shared a mobile RAT on a dark web forum in June 2017. The threat was capable of data exfiltration, but could also destroy data locally, and even e