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Sophisticated Android Ransomware Executes with the Home Button

October 9, 2020

A fresh variant of a sophisticated Android ransomware known as MalLocker locks up mobile devices – surfacing its ransom note when a user hits the Home button.

According to research from Microsoft, MalLocker is spreading via malicious website downloads (disguised as popular apps, cracked games or video players) and peddled in online forums, as it always has. However, “the new variant caught our attention because it’s an advanced malware with unmistakable malicious characteristic and behavior and yet manages to evade many available protections, registering a low detection rate against security solutions,” Microsoft researchers said, in a Thursday posting.

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