CoronaLocker is another malware related to COVID-19. It is screen locker distributed via a fake WiFi hacking program named wifihacker.exe. Upon execution it lock user out of windows. After logging again it make looping sound produce by the Microsoft Speech API saying corona virus.
PoetRAT is a new family of Remote Access Trojans. It gains it poetic name because it references to sonnets by English playwright William Shakespeare in the macros, which was used in malicious Word documents also known as the Dropper.
CoViper is just another threat actor that wants a piece of the pie of the COVID-19 outbreak. CoViper is a Master Boot Locker or MBRLocker. It means it does not encrypt user files but change the Booting "sequence" and hence render a system useless. An advanced computer user can recover it by installing a new MBR.
Malicious hacker finds a way to capitalize the current corona virus epidemic. They send fake phishing emails appear to be from government about a corona relief package.
CoronaVirus ransomware authors decided to play on the high-profile name of the virus epidemic COVID-19 (abbreviation as CO rona VI rus D isease 2019), abbreviated CoronaVirus .It encrypts user data using AES, and then requires a ransom of 0.008 - 0.05 #BTC which is around $50 in order to return the files.