The 'Covid-19' theme has long been a weapon for cybercrime, this time the Immuni app is being exploited.
According to an alarm launched by Cert-Agid, the government structure that deals with cybersecurity, "cybercriminals are spreading a fake version of the same app through ad hoc domains".
The aim is to carry a virus called Alien: it can take control of the smartphone and also empty the current account of the unfortunate user.
"To report the presence of the fake Immuni app - explains Cert-Agid - was the group of researchers of Malware Hunter Team (MHT) through a tweet", then thanks also "to the contribution of D3Lab, the domains hosting the fake app ".
The government-approved Immune contact tracing application just exceeded 10 million users.
It is not the first time that Cert-Agid has raised an alarm in this sense.
In June, he alerted to a computer virus campaign, disseminated by e-mail, under the pretext of downloading a file called Immuni which invited you to click on a bogus website that imitated that of the Federation of the Orders of Italian Pharmacists.
