{"id":34399,"date":"2020-06-30T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=34399"},"modified":"2020-06-30T03:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T07:38:00","slug":"new-ransomware-masquerades-as-covid-19-contact-tracing-app-on-your-android-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/30\/new-ransomware-masquerades-as-covid-19-contact-tracing-app-on-your-android-device\/","title":{"rendered":"New ransomware masquerades as COVID-19 contact-tracing app on your Android device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Because there wasn’t enough going on, now we get this. Just another example of miscreants taking advantage because they can’t earn a living legitimately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Charlie Osborne<\/a> – A new strain of ransomware<\/strong> is being deployed in attacks created off the back of the release of contact-tracing apps during the novel\u00a0coronavirus pandemic<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers from ESET\u00a0said this week<\/a>\u00a0that the ransomware<\/strong> emerged only a few days after Health Canada announced the release of COVID Alert, which will first be tested in Ontario before rolling out nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the official app is not due to be made available to mobile device users until next month at the earliest, cyberattackers are trying to capitalize on the government’s announcement with an Android package of their own — marketed as Canada’s official COVID-19 tracing app, but hiding a malicious secret. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the cybersecurity firm, two websites offered what appeared to be Health Canada’s tracing app. However, the now-defunct domains — tracershield[.]ca and covid19tracer[.]ca — were actually hosting APKs that, when downloaded, installed the CryCryptor ransomware on Android devices.\u00a0 Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because there wasn’t enough going on, now we get this. Just another example of miscreants taking advantage because they can’t earn a living legitimately. By\u00a0Charlie Osborne – A new strain of ransomware is being deployed in attacks created off the back of the release of contact-tracing apps during the novel\u00a0coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0 Researchers from ESET\u00a0said this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[636],"tags":[697,637],"class_list":["post-34399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ransomware","tag-covid-19","tag-ransomware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t