Permission to Spy: An Analysis of Android Malware Targeting Tibetans
Seth M. Hardy, Byron Sonne, Masashi Crete‐Nishihata, Jakub Dalek, Ronald J. Deibert, Adam Senft · TSpace (University of Toronto) · 2013
A compromised version of Kakao Talk, an Android-based mobile messaging client, was sent in a highly-targeted email to a prominent individual in the Tibetan community. This email message repurposed a legitimate private email message sent by an information security expert in the Tibetan community to a member of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile. The cellular network information gathered by this malware would only be useful to actors with detailed knowledge of the cellular communication provider’s technical infrastructure, such as large businesses and governments.