It was only a matter of time until some clever hacker decided to leverage Pokemon GO's huge success to create Pokemon-themed ransomware.
The bad news is that the person who developed this new threat is not happy with just delivering a basic crypto-ransomware but is also interested in data exfiltration scenarios as well as creating a backdoor account on the infected devices.
Discovered by security researcher
Michael Gillespie and broken down by
Bleeping Computer, this new ransomware appears to be currently under development, gearing up for a larger distribution campaign.
Ransomware disguised as PokemonGo.exe file
The person behind this ransomware is distributing the threat as a Windows executable called PokemonGo.exe, which includes an icon of a very adorable Pikachu.
