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TrickBot Targets Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint Users to Siphon PINs

August 29, 2019

The TrickBot malware, known previously for targeting U.S. banks, is now setting a bullseye on users of U.S.-based mobile carriers, including Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, to launch SIM swapping attacks.

Researchers with Dell’s Secureworks research team warned that they have observed the malware leveraging a new module that manipulates web sessions for already-infected systems, in order to inject code into websites specifically for U.S. mobile carriers. This code, injected on mobile carrier websites, adds an option on the legitimate websites requesting users’ account PIN number – giving the malware’s operators the ability to steal visitors’ PIN codes and other credentials.

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