Android ransomware MalLocker executes from with the Home button

According to Microsoft, Android ransomware known as MalLocker locks the user's phone with the ransom note after the Home button is pressed. MalLocker is being distributed via various downloads and online forums, but its new version caught the eye of researchers because of its abilities to evade various protections and to register a low detection rate against security solutions. MalLocker differs from regular android ransomware by having the overlay screen is surfaced using never-before-seen techniques that make use of certain Android features and using an open-source machine-learning module used to automatically fit the overlay screen to the device. Read more...