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#10 The Hacker News general August 20, 2026 at 11:26 UTC

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

A new Android malware family named Manic has been observed targeting Ukrainian banks, government services, and military communications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions and cryptocurrency platforms. Manic combines banking trojan and spyware capabilities and features a novel fallback exfiltration mechanism that routes stolen data through nearby infected Android devices, enabling data theft even from offline phones.

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Relevance score: 80.0/100

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