It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected

FluBot, a family of Android malware, is circulating again via SMS messaging, according to authorities in Finland. The Nordic country's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-FI) lately warned that scam messages written in Finnish are being sent in the hope that recipients will click the included link to a website that requests …

[Pascal Monett]

"written in Finnish [..] without Scandinavian letters"

And that is supposed to be coming from your Scandinavian Telecom provider.

Tell me that nobody is going to fall for that.

Please.

[Skiron]

Re: "written in Finnish [..] without Scandinavian letters"

They obviously do. Who in their right mind installs apps from _any_ webite?

Serves 'em right!

[Alumoi]

Re: "written in Finnish [..] without Scandinavian letters"

Who in their right mind installs apps from _any_ webite?

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry?

[insanehound]

Re: "written in Finnish [..] without Scandinavian letters"

No. it doesn't "serve 'em right!"

The victim of a crime is never to blame. Unfortunately the average joe is not interested in tech news, so doesn't even read the warning or news stories about these attacks

[ThatOne]

Re: "written in Finnish [..] without Scandinavian letters"

Indeed! The average Joe is totally overwhelmed by all that and happy when (s)he gets some vaguely intelligible instructions (s)he can actually follow without a dictionary. Things like don't trust this or never do that are way above his pay grade.