{"id":245117,"date":"2018-01-17T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245117"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:56:30","slug":"skygofree-is-james-bond-spyware-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245117-skygofree-is-james-bond-spyware-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Skygofree is James Bond spyware for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/skygofree-smart-trojan\/20717\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered<\/a><\/strong> sophisticated new malware for Android, which it said has\u00a0capabilities &#8220;reminiscent of Hollywood spy movies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Called Skygofree, it was disguised as an update to improve mobile Internet speed on fake mobile operator websites.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed on a device, Skygofree can\u00a0track the location of that device and turn on audio recording when in a certain place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In practice, this means that attackers can start listening in on victims when, say, they enter the office or visit the CEO\u2019s home,&#8221; said Kaspersky Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Skygofree can also connect to a Wi-Fi network,\u00a0even if you have disabled Wi-Fi connections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This lets the victim\u2019s traffic be collected and analysed,&#8221; said Kaspersky said.<\/p>\n<p>The malware can also monitor apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. In WhatsApp&#8217;s case, it reads the messages through Accessibility Services.<\/p>\n<p>It is also able to operate in standby mode.<\/p>\n<p>On one unnamed &#8220;major&#8221; smartphone brand, which stops all apps except for certain favourites when the screen is turned off, Skygofree adds itself to the favourites list.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/245113-how-a-22-year-old-found-the-meltdown-and-spectre-security-flaws.html\">How a 22-year-old found the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab has discovered sophisticated new malware for Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":190160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1595,48351],"class_list":["post-245117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-kaspersky","tag-skygofree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245137,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245117\/revisions\/245137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}