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ZeroDayRAT mobile spyware targeting Android and iOS

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ZeroDayRAT is a newly documented mobile spyware operation targeting Android and iOS devices, creating broad risk for persistent surveillance and financial abuse. It can expose communications, precise location data, and banking activity once a victim installs the malicious payload. The tool’s access to a web dashboard and theft modules makes credential theft, account takeover, and data exfiltration more likely after infection.

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Timeline

  1. 10.02.2026 16:00 2 articles · 3mo ago

    ZeroDayRAT documented targeting Android and iOS

    Initial Disclosure

    ZeroDayRAT is a mobile spyware operation targeting Android and iOS devices, installed when a victim is persuaded to install a malicious Android APK or iOS payload, often through smishing, phishing emails, counterfeit app stores, or links shared through WhatsApp or Telegram; once deployed, it provides persistent access to communications, precise location data, banking activity, camera, microphone, keystrokes, and a web-based dashboard, and it includes crypto-stealing and banking-stealing modules aimed at PhonePe, Google Pay, Apple Pay and PayPal.

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