{"id":156365,"date":"2023-01-26T21:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/roaming-mantis-spreading-mobile-malware-that-hijacks-wi-fi-routers-dns-settings"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:24:02","slug":"roaming-mantis-spreading-mobile-malware-that-hijacks-wi-fi-routers-dns-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/roaming-mantis-spreading-mobile-malware-that-hijacks-wi-fi-routers-dns-settings","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Mantis Spreading Mobile Malware That Hijacks Wi-Fi Routers\u2019 DNS Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/roaming-mantis-spreading-mobile-malware-that-hijacks-wi-fi-routers-dns-settings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as <b>Wroba <\/b>to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Domain_Name_System\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DNS<\/a>) hijacking.<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky, which carried out an <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/roaming-mantis-dns-changer-in-malicious-mobile-app\/108464\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a> of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Roaming Mantis, also known as Shaoye, is a long-running financially motivated operation that singles out Android smartphone users with malware capable of stealing bank account credentials as well as harvesting other kinds of sensitive information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}