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GoldFactory Targets SE Asia with Modified Banking Apps

🛡️ Group-IB says the financially motivated actor GoldFactory has launched a new campaign across Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, distributing modified Android banking apps that serve as droppers for remote‑access trojans. The campaign, active since October 2024 and linked to activity as far back as June 2023, relies on phone-based social engineering and messaging apps like Zalo to direct victims to fake Play Store landing pages. Injected modules preserve normal banking functionality while hooking app logic to bypass security checks, abuse accessibility services, and exfiltrate credentials and account balances.

Albiriox Android MaaS Threat Expands in Dark Markets

🛡️ A new Android malware family, Albiriox, has emerged on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums as a Malware-as-a-Service offering full device takeover and real-time fraud capabilities. Cleafy says it already targets more than 400 banking and cryptocurrency applications and combines VNC-style remote control with accessibility-driven UI automation, overlays and black-screen fraud techniques. Initial subscriptions were advertised at $650–$720 per month and the developers promote crypting to evade detection.