A couple of days ago I reported on a nasty little android trojan that is modular and can be used to do multiple things. One of those things is cryptomining and it’s not a good thing for your device. It’s so aggressive that it can overheat your battery and destroy your device. Check out what it did to a phone that was running the cryptomining trojan for a couple of days. Consider this a public service announcement.



Loapi is an interesting representative from the world of malicious Android apps. It’s creators have implemented almost the entire spectrum of techniques for attacking devices: the Trojan can subscribe users to paid services, send SMS messages to any number, generate traffic and make money from showing advertisements, use the computing power of a device to mine cryptocurrencies, as well as perform a variety of actions on the internet on behalf of the user/device. The only thing missing is user espionage, but the modular architecture of this Trojan means it’s possible to add this sort of functionality at any time.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Loapi Trojan Can Damage Your Mobile Devices