"Police Ransomware" Expands to Android Ecosystem

Dermot7 · May 15, 2014

Crimeware has steadily transferred Windows-based technology to Android. We've seen phishing, fake-antivirus scams, banking trojan components, and now… ransomware.

Yep. "Police ransomware" on Android. Our name for it is, Koler.
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002704.html

MrBrian · Jul 30, 2014

200,000 Android users exposed to Koler

guest · Jul 31, 2014

No this is not ransomware. This is scareware.

Dermot7 · Oct 24, 2014

Android Koler is a family of ransomware that targets Android users by locking up their mobile devices and demanding a ransom. It is believed to be the mobile extension of the Reveton ransomware family. Ransomware has been a profitable venture in the PC world with the likes of Crytolocker, but is a relative newcomer on mobile devices, at least in part due to file restrictions in mobile operating systems which limit the ability of apps to access the full file system. Despite this fact, the mobile market is clearly one that ransomware operators would like to tap into and Koler is a step in that direction.
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