Security News > 2020 > June > Emerging Ransomware Targets Photos, Videos on Android Devices

A new strain of ransomware has arisen in Canada, targeting Android users and locking up personal photos and videos.

Like other ransomware families, it encrypts targeted files.

"After CryCryptor encrypts a file, three new files are created, and the original file is removed," according to ESET. "The encrypted file has the file extension.enc appended, and the algorithm generates a salt unique for every encrypted file, stored with the extension.enc.salt; and an initialization vector,.enc.iv."

Interestingly, targeted files include photos and videos.

Txt file is placed in every directory with encrypted files.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/emerging-ransomware-photos-videos-android/156893/