CylancePROTECT vs. CoViper: COVID-19 Themed Malware
As it tends to happen whenever society goes through a major event, cybercriminals have recently been using COVID-19 as an opportunity to lure victims into phishing campaigns by impersonating the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the World Health Organization (WHO), with the end-goal of stealing users’ personal information.
More recently, we have observed malware attacks targeting multiple platforms such as the traditional Windows OS, but also Android and Linux operating systems in a variety of forms such as Trojans, ransomware and wipers.
Similar to other threats we have seen in the past such as MBRKiller, the cororonavirus-themed CoViper malware overwrites the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the victim, leaving the computer useless from an operating system standpoint.
BlackBerry Protect® defeats CoViper malware.
Blackberry’s Predictive Advantage is able to prevent this threat from executing five years before it existed with no additional intervention, no updates and no Internet connectivity while also maintaining our well-recognized low friction on system resources.
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