https://insinuator.net/tags/locky/ Recent content in Locky on Insinuator.net - Bold Statements Hugo en-us Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://insinuator.net/2016/07/new-ransomware-wave-analysis/ Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://insinuator.net/2016/07/new-ransomware-wave-analysis/ <p>In the context of a customer project, we examined a new variant of the Locky ransomware. As in the meantime stated by a law enforcement agency, this has been part of a large wave of attacks hitting various enterprises in the night from Tuesday (2016-07-26) to Wednesday.</p> <p>As an initial attack vector, the attackers use emails with an attachment that probably even uses a 0day exploit, that enables the payload to be executed already when displayed in the MS Outlook preview.</p>