Bengaluru: Country's premier investigating agency the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sounded a countrywide alert against a malicious software threat that uses an update related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
“Based on inputs received from INTERPOL, CBI has issued an alert relating to a banking Trojan known as Cerberus. This malicious software takes advantage of COVID-19 pandemic to impersonate and send SMS using the lure of COVID-19 related content to download the embedded malicious link, which deploys its malicious app usually spread via phishing campaigns to trick users into installing it on their smartphones,” a CBI statement said.
