Discovery of Geost Botnet Made Possible by Attacker OpSec Fails

A series of operational security (OpSec) failures on the part of attackers enabled researchers to discover the Geost botnet. In mid-2018, Virus Bulletin researchers Sebastian Garcia, María José Erquiaga and Anna Shirokova discovered Geost, one of the largest Android banking botnets known today, while analyzing another malware family called HtBot. The researchers found that HtBot […]…  appeared first on The State of Security.