Locky ransomware and Kovter click-fraud malware are being spread in the same email campaign for the first time, with malicious .lnk files being used to infect computers. Researchers at Microsoft’s ...

For more than four weeks, the only source of Locky ransomware infections has been through spam campaigns that distributed the Kovter click-fraud malware, as the primary source of Locky infections, the ...

Ransomware called IKARUSdilapidated is managing to slip into unsuspecting organizations as an unknown file. A variant of the notorious Locky ransomware is part of a large scale email-based campaign ...

Reports are coming in from multiple security researchers and security firms about increased activity from one of the groups spreading the Locky ransomware. These spam waves have started on September ...

Sage and Locky, two distinct pieces of ransomware, have been found to be using overlapping infrastructure—a reminder of how malware support and distribution infrastructure is frequently reused.

Researchers have spotted a new ransomware campaign in the wild doubling-up its attack vector by infecting its victims first with Locky and again with the malware variant FakeGlobe, according to a ...

It was arguably the incident which pushed the threat of ransomware into the view of the whole world, over a year before the WannaCry outbreak. In February 2016, the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical ...

A new flavor of ransomware, similar in its mode of attack to the notorious banking software Dridex, is causing havoc with some users. Victims are usually sent via email a Microsoft Word document ...