Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2016
Operators behind the Afraidgate campaign continue to leverage on Neutrino EK, but switches from CryptXXX to Locky Ransomware. According to the experts from Palo Alto Networks, one of the most long-lived hacking campaigns leveraging on the Neutrino EK switches from CryptXXX to the Locky Ransomware. The campaign dubbed Afraidgate due to the name of the gate domains (using name servers from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2016
A new ransomware campaign relies on a Locky variant that is distributed through JavaScript that includes the binary of the threat itself. Locky is one of the most infamous threats of the ransomware family and according to the experts it is in continuous evolution. The threat has been using JavaScript attachments as a distribution mechanism, but most […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2016
New threat dubbed Zepto Ransomware is spreading out with a new email spam campaign. It is a variant of the recent Locky Ransomware. The news was recently reported in a blog post by the Cisco Talos team: âWe are watching Zepto very carefully. Itâs closely tied to Locky, sharing many of the same attributes,â said Craig Williams, […]
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