Locky Ransomware Returns in New Necurs-driven Campaign
SecurityWeek | April 24, 2017
Locky was the dominant ransomware in 2016, but was less active in the first quarter of 2017. Now the threat is back with a new Necurs-driven campaign, which was first spotted on April 21. Necurs is a major botnet with estimates last year of up to 1.7 million captive computers.According to SophosLabs' telemetry, global spam volumes dropped dramatically just before Christmas 2016