A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack. The attacker is asking victims to pay 110 yuan (nearly USD 16) in ransom through WeChat Pay the payment feature offered by China’s most popular messaging app. The new Chinese ransomware has been targeting only Chinese users. It also includes an additional ability to steal users’ account passwords for Alipay, NetEase 163 email service, Baidu Cloud Disk, Taobao, Tmall, AliWangWang, and QQ websites.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2018/12/china-ransomware-wechat.html