{"id":12812,"date":"2026-05-13T07:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/new-trickmo-variant-uses-ton-c2-and-html\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:03:48","slug":"new-trickmo-variant-uses-ton-c2-and-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/new-trickmo-variant-uses-ton-c2-and-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New TrickMo Variant Uses TON C2 and SOCKS5 to Create Android Network Pivots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New TrickMo Variant Uses TON C2 and SOCKS5 to Create Android Network Pivots<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 flagged a new version of the TrickMo Android banking trojan that uses The Open Network (TON) for command-and-control (C2).<br \/>\nThe new variant, observed by ThreatFabric between January and February 2026, has been observed actively targeting banking and cryptocurrency wallet users in France, Italy, and Austria.<br \/>\n&#8220;TrickMo relies on a runtime-loaded APK\u00a0 (dex.module),<\/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\/05\/new-trickmo-variant-uses-ton-c2-and.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New TrickMo Variant Uses TON C2 and SOCKS5 to Create Android Network Pivots Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of the TrickMo Android banking trojan that uses The Open Network (TON) for command-and-control (C2). The new variant, observed by ThreatFabric between January and February 2026, has been observed actively targeting banking and cryptocurrency wallet [&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-12812","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\/12812"}],"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=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}