As a result, this makes it difficult for victims to remove it from their systems.
Crackonosh protects itself by disabling security software and updates and uses other anti-analysis techniques,researchers at Avast wrote.
These make it hard to discover, detect and remove.
The malware has been discovered on devices in over dozen countries affecting over 222,000 unique devices since December 2020.
Approximately 1,000 devices are being affected each day.
Of these, 200,045 encounters were in the month of March alone.
Its too early to say for sure if the trend weve noted in Q1 2021 is here to stay.
source: www.techworm.net