GravityRAT Windows Malware Now Affects Android and macOS

Oct. 21, 2020

The Android version of GravityRAT spyware was spotted on an altered version of an open-source travel app named Travel Mate. The attackersaltered the app by adding malicious code and released it under the name ‘Travel Mate Pro’. Similarly, the attackers created an adult comics Android app to spread the malware. On macOS, the malicious actors operate the malware through apps named Enigma and Titanium.

Below are the capabilities of GravityRAT, as detailed by Kaspersky researchers:

“Cunning disguise and an expanded OS portfolio not only allow us to say that we can expect more incidents with this malware in the APAC region, but this also supports the wider trend that malicious users are not necessarily focused on developing new malware, but developing proven ones instead, in an attempt to be as successful as possible,”said Tatyana Shishkova, security expert at Kaspersky.

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