CBI issues alert to states, UTs on Cerberus that hits mobile phones

The CBI has alerted police forces and central security agencies on an Interpol input about a malicious software, Cerberus, that infects phones to steal financial data by luring the user through SMSes, camouflaged as Covid-19 information, to download links containing the virus, officials said Tuesday.
 

A banking Trojan known as Cerberus is used by cybercriminals internationally and it is taking advantage of the novel coronavirus pandemic to impersonate and send SMSes under the cover of Covid-19-related content, asking innocuous users to download an embedded malicious link, they said. Once downloaded the link, infects the phone deploying its malicious application that