New Android Ransomware from the NSA?

There is new ransomware floating around that encrypts the contents of Android phones called Simlocker. It pretends to be from the NSA, uses XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) and is hard to detect with anti-malware tools.

Check Point’s malware research team has seen evidence that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been paid instead of victims wiping their devices and starting over. Read the Check Point post on it here.here

C’mon people, the NSA claiming to only take PayPal?