{
  "id": 5098280,
  "title": "Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/meta-ads-push-streamrat-android-trojan-that-can-gain-near-complete",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-02T12:22:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/meta-ads-push-streamrat-android-trojan.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign's advertisement focused on Spain and reached an estimated 570,950 Meta accounts in the European Union",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}