{"id":94282,"date":"2019-07-30T20:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T03:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/new-android-ransomware-uses-sms-spam-to-infect-its-victims"},"modified":"2019-07-30T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T03:42:27","slug":"new-android-ransomware-uses-sms-spam-to-infect-its-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/new-android-ransomware-uses-sms-spam-to-infect-its-victims","title":{"rendered":"New Android Ransomware Uses SMS Spam to Infect Its Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-android-ransomware-uses-sms-spam-to-infect-its-victims.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new ransomware family targeting Android devices spreads to other victims by sending text messages containing malicious links to the entire contact list found on already infected targets.<\/p>\n<p>The malware dubbed Android\/Filecoder. C (FileCoder) by the ESET research team which discovered it is currently targeting devices running Android 5.1 or later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to narrow targeting and flaws in both execution of the campaign and implementation of its encryption, the impact of this new ransomware is limited,\u201d ESET\u2019s researchers found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ransomware family targeting Android devices spreads to other victims by sending text messages containing malicious links to the entire contact list found on already infected targets. The malware dubbed Android\/Filecoder. C (FileCoder) by the ESET research team which discovered it is currently targeting devices running Android 5.1 or later. \u201cDue to narrow targeting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}