Ransomware Locky

"Meeting hackers' demands will not necessarily guarantee compliance from the hackers. In many cases, the likelihood of receiving decryption keys is almost nil."

The government had said that ransomware 'Locky' is spreading through a "massive spam campaign".

Locky ransomware's re-emergence with new email distribution campaign has been touted as one of the largest malware campaigns in the latter half of 2017, the media reported.

CERT advises to not click on emails with subjects like "please print", "documents", "photo", "Images", "scans" and "pictures."

The government has issued an alert for a new computer ransomware called 'Locky' which is spreading through a wave of emails with attachments. The malware can lock computer files with an encryption program and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. More than 23 million messages have been sent in a campaign to spread variants of Locky, the governme...

A recent study by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering found the astonishing statistic.

Researchers claim that attackers are now utilising social media apps like Facebook and LinkedIn to spread malware.

"Meeting hackers' demands will not necessarily guarantee compliance from the hackers. In many cases, the likelihood of receiving decryption keys is almost nil."

The government had said that ransomware 'Locky' is spreading through a "massive spam campaign".

Locky ransomware's re-emergence with new email distribution campaign has been touted as one of the largest malware campaigns in the latter half of 2017, the media reported.

CERT advises to not click on emails with subjects like "please print", "documents", "photo", "Images", "scans" and "pictures."

The government has issued an alert for a new computer ransomware called 'Locky' which is spreading through a wave of emails with attachments. The malware can lock computer files with an encryption program and demand a ransom for them to be unlocked. More than 23 million messages have been sent in a campaign to spread variants of Locky, the governme...

A recent study by researchers at Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering found the astonishing statistic.

Researchers claim that attackers are now utilising social media apps like Facebook and LinkedIn to spread malware.