Amazon Spear Phishing Campaign Spreads Locky Ransomware
Locky ransomware has been infecting computers and networks all over the world in the past few months. Amazon customers have been deliberately targeted through malicious Microsoft Word documents to spread this malware. Comodo Threat Research Labs discovered this spear phishing campaign. Security researchers labeled it as one of the largest spam ransomware attacks of 2016. This attack took place on May 17 and last for twelve hours. During this time, 30 million spam messages have been sent out to Amazon users under the disguise of being an order shipment update notification. Spreading Locky....
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