{"id":10800,"date":"2026-02-20T07:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-google-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T07:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:05:41","slug":"promptspy-android-malware-abuses-google-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-google-html\/","title":{"rendered":"PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini AI to Automate Recent-Apps Persistence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini AI to Automate Recent-Apps Persistence<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google&#8217;s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its execution flow and achieves persistence.<br \/>\nThe malware has been codenamed PromptSpy by ESET. The malware is equipped to capture lockscreen data, block uninstallation efforts, gather device information, take screenshots,<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-google.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini AI to Automate Recent-Apps Persistence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google&#8217;s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its execution flow and achieves persistence. The malware has been codenamed PromptSpy by ESET. The malware is equipped to capture lockscreen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-10800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}