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PSA: always update your smartphone | Ratel RAT targets outdated Android phones in ransomware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Title doesn’t really follow the data from the article. Updating your smartphone doesn’t appear to be related to the RAT investigated here. Rather, the researchers note older devices were targeted more often.

This could be an incidental finding.