{"id":5321,"date":"2025-08-26T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/hook-android-trojan-adds-ransomware-overlays-expands-to-107-remote-commands\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:14:14","slug":"hook-android-trojan-adds-ransomware-overlays-expands-to-107-remote-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/hook-android-trojan-adds-ransomware-overlays-expands-to-107-remote-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"HOOK Android Trojan Adds Ransomware Overlays, Expands to 107 Remote Commands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called HOOK that features ransomware-style overlay screens to display extortion messages.<br \/>\n&#8220;A prominent characteristic of the latest variant is its capacity to deploy a full-screen ransomware overlay, which aims to coerce the victim into remitting a ransom payment,&#8221; Zimperium zLabs researcher Vishnu Pratapagiri\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called HOOK that features ransomware-style overlay screens to display extortion messages.<br \/>\n&#8220;A prominent characteristic of the latest variant is its capacity to deploy a full-screen ransomware overlay, which aims to coerce the victim into remitting a ransom payment,&#8221; Zimperium zLabs researcher Vishnu Pratapagiri\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called HOOK that features ransomware-style overlay screens to display extortion messages. &#8220;A prominent characteristic of the latest variant is its capacity to deploy a full-screen ransomware overlay, which aims to coerce the victim into remitting a ransom payment,&#8221; Zimperium zLabs researcher Vishnu Pratapagiri\u00a0Cybersecurity&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/hook-android-trojan-adds-ransomware-overlays-expands-to-107-remote-commands\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOOK Android Trojan Adds Ransomware Overlays, Expands to 107 Remote Commands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}