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Title: Arid Viper Targeting Arabic Android Users with Spyware Disguised as Dating App
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Arid Viper Targeting Arabic Android Users with Spyware Disguised as Dating App

The threat actor known as Arid Viper (aka APT-C-23, Desert Falcon, or TAG-63) has been attributed as behind an Android spyware campaign targeting Arabic-speaking users with a counterfeit dating app designed to harvest data from infected handsets.
"Arid Viper's Android malware has a number of features that enable the operators to surreptitiously collect sensitive information from victims' devices

Source: Arid Viper Targeting Arabic Android Users with Spyware Disguised as Dating App (https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/arid-viper-targeting-arabic-android.html)