PhantomCard New NFC-driven Android malware emerging in Brazil

One of the recent discoveries made by ThreatFabric’s analysts continues this trend. In this report we introduce PhantomCard - a new Android NFC-based Trojan targeting banking customers in Brazil and potentially expanding globally. Key takeaways are:

• PhantomCard relays NFC data from victim’s banking card to fraudster’s device.
• PhantomCard is based on Chinese-originating NFC relay Malware-as-a-Service.
• The actor behind the malware is a “serial” reseller of Android threats active in Brazil.
• PhantomCard is delivered via fake “Google Play” web-pages mimicking apps for “card protection”.

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