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Threat actors have modified SolidBit ransomware to focus their sights on gamers and social media users. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro discovered the SolidBit variant disguised as a League of Legends account checker tool.

These 17 dropper apps, collectively dubbed DawDropper by Trend Micro, masqueraded as productivity and utility apps such as document scanners, QR code readers, VPN services, and call recorders, among others. All these apps in question have been removed from the app marketplace.

"There is no question that, whether it is law enforcement pressure or the defenders getting better, that we are seeing that these groups are forced to evolve — they have to get better at what they are doing," says Jon Clay, vice president of threat intelligence for Trend Micro.

Trend Micro has unveiled additions to its Cloud One platform designed to make intrusion prevention and protecting containerized workloads easier and less costly for users of the Amazon Web Services public cloud.

Cybercriminals are targeting victims in a number of different ways with fake cryptocurrency wallet apps, said Trend Micro researchers in January.