{"id":237956,"date":"2026-05-29T06:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/btmob-android-malware-service-generates-custom-phishing-payloads"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:10:20","slug":"btmob-android-malware-service-generates-custom-phishing-payloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/btmob-android-malware-service-generates-custom-phishing-payloads","title":{"rendered":"BTMOB Android malware service generates custom phishing payloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/btmob-android-malware-service-generates-custom-phishing-payloads2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Android remote access trojan named BTMOB is offered to cybercriminals with a builder interface for generating malware payloads tailored to phishing lures.<\/p>\n<p>The malware provides a wide set of features that includes stealing specific data, intercepting financial transactions, capturing screenshots, and remote control capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity company ESET says that BTMOB is openly advertised on the clearweb and operates as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform. The APK builder included in the offer provides easy customization of the payload without any need to code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Android remote access trojan named BTMOB is offered to cybercriminals with a builder interface for generating malware payloads tailored to phishing lures. The malware provides a wide set of features that includes stealing specific data, intercepting financial transactions, capturing screenshots, and remote control capabilities. Cybersecurity company ESET says that BTMOB is openly advertised on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237956","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}