Hello, welcome to the Friday, June 22nd, 2018 edition of the Sands and at Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and today I'm recording from Jacksonville, Florida.

If you have kids, you may have heard of Fortnite, a game that has become very popular this year.

So far the game has not been available for Android, but it is supposed to arrive for Android this summer.

Malware authors are now taking advantage of this.

The Malware, which was found by Malverbytes, copied artwork from the iOS version of Fortnite, to appear legitimate.

After this fake game displays the artwork and thus plain introduction sequence that's also copied from the iOS version,

the fake game will ask the user to verify that they're human by downloading

and installing additional software.

So in essence, this malware doesn't actually use any exploit, but instead takes advantage

of the user to install additional applications.

At this point, nothing too malicious appears to be installed. It redirects

user back to the Google Play Store, but probably whoever does this then gets some

commission for getting people to install these other applications. And talking

about taking advantage of users, WannaCry is still used to trick users.

While the Malver itself is long gone, new attacks just claim that users are infected by WannaCry and use the high name recognition of the Malver to trick the user then into

installing additional software or even trick them into paying ransom.

The United Kingdom's National Fraud and Cyber Reporting Center published an email that

it received over 200 emails from users reporting one of the extortion

scams. The email asked for $650 in Bitcoin and threatens to delete all data on Friday the 22nd,

so today. Cisco released 21 bulletins on Wednesdays.

There are too many to cover them really all, but note that five of them are rated critical

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