A variant of the Black Rose Lucy malware-as-a-service dropper, which originated in Russia a little over two years ago, downloads ransomware that passes itself off as an official message from the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in order to dupe victims into paying a ransom that they believe to be a fine. The new ransomware strain was uncovered by researchers at Check Point and affects devices running the Android mobile operating system (OS). When downloaded, it encrypts its victims’ files and accuses them of possessing illegal pornographic content on their devices. They are told their details have been uploaded to the FBI Cyber Crime Department’s datacentre and are shown a list of offences they are supposed to have committed.
Source: Computer Weekly
