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Android Switcher Trojan – Daily Security Byte

Usually Android trojans target and take over your phone, but a new variant goes after your entire wireless network. In today’s video, I talk about a new Android trojan discovered by Kaspersky labs called Switcher. After infecting your phone, this mobile trojan tries to brute force administrative access to your wireless router in order to change you DNS servers. Watch the video for more details, as well as tips to avoid this new threat.

Episode Runtime: 3:09

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iduOPa2Oago

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— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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