VERY IMPORTANT

On the heels of a busy summer tracking the rapid spread of FluBot mobile malware across Europe and Australia, Proofpoint researchers have observed yet another malware campaign, dubbed TangleBot, designed to steal mobile users’ sensitive information. TangleBot started off using ever popular Covid-themed lures to trick Android users in Canada and the United States into installing malware on their devices. Proofpoint threat analysts recently covered a high-level overview of TangleBot on the Cloudmark blog, warning mobile users of this threat. In this blog, researchers dive into the malware, detailing what makes it interesting and why it has been coined TangleBot.