"In early 2016, a destructive ransomware variant, Locky, was observed infecting computers belonging to businesses globally, including those in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Locky propagates through spam emails that include malicious Microsoft Office documents or compressed attachments (e.g., .rar, .zip) that were previously associated with banking Trojans such as Dridex and Pony. The malicious attachments contain macros or JavaScript files to download the Locky files. Recently, this ransomware has also been distributed using the Nuclear Exploit Kit."
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| - "In early 2016, a destructive ransomware variant, Locky, was observed infecting computers belonging to businesses globally, including those in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Locky propagates through spam emails that include malicious Microsoft Office documents or compressed attachments (e.g., .rar, .zip) that were previously associated with banking Trojans such as Dridex and Pony. The malicious attachments contain macros or JavaScript files to download the Locky files. Recently, this ransomware has also been distributed using the Nuclear Exploit Kit."
- Locky es un águila calva que hizo su debut en la versión de 16 bits de Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Es uno de los amigos de los animales de Sonic the Hedgehog, que es capturado por el Doctor Robotnik y encarcelado dentro de los Badniks.
- The general Locky resembles a miniature bald eagle, except with a much larger head. They have a black plummage with a white head, two large black eyes, a slightly small but sharp orange beak, large wings for an Animal, and two orange three-toed feet with claws.
- Locky ist ein Charakter aus Sonic the Hedgehog 2. thumb
- <default>Locky</default> Type Subtype Creator(s) Date Place of Origin Source Language Platform File Type Aliases Family File Size Infection Size Infection Impact Reported Costs MD5 Hash SHA1 Hash CRC32 Hash Locky is a ransomware email-worm and macro virus trojan program that is similar to Cryptolocker. This ransomware is contained within a Microsoft Word document sent by email (in either Microsoft Outlook or Office 365) to thousands of computers, pretending to be an invoice of a company and making use of social-engineering tactics to lure victims into installing the ransomware as well as the enabling of "macros" if the file attached is unreadable (it will always be unreadable), once the file is opened. It is reported to have done 4000 new infections per hour and approximately 100,000 i
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| - <default>Locky</default> Type Subtype Creator(s) Date Place of Origin Source Language Platform File Type Aliases Family File Size Infection Size Infection Impact Reported Costs MD5 Hash SHA1 Hash CRC32 Hash Locky is a ransomware email-worm and macro virus trojan program that is similar to Cryptolocker. This ransomware is contained within a Microsoft Word document sent by email (in either Microsoft Outlook or Office 365) to thousands of computers, pretending to be an invoice of a company and making use of social-engineering tactics to lure victims into installing the ransomware as well as the enabling of "macros" if the file attached is unreadable (it will always be unreadable), once the file is opened. It is reported to have done 4000 new infections per hour and approximately 100,000 infections per day with most of the infections happening in Germany and the Netherlands. When opened, the Document file gets downloaded into the system and that its content is garbled along with a prompt that states "enable macros". Once the macros are enabled, the user would download an executable from a remote server and run it from there and with Locky itself encrypting nearly every file on the system as well as the network. The encrypted files are changed with the .locky extension as this happens. As with typical ransomware, it will then display a message that tells victims to download the Tor browser and visit the hacker's website for further instructions and payments. From there, it will ask for a payment of between 0.5 and 2 Bitcoins ($208 to $800 roughly) in order to receive the decryption key. An antivirus that can delete ransomware can remove this virus.
- "In early 2016, a destructive ransomware variant, Locky, was observed infecting computers belonging to businesses globally, including those in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom. Locky propagates through spam emails that include malicious Microsoft Office documents or compressed attachments (e.g., .rar, .zip) that were previously associated with banking Trojans such as Dridex and Pony. The malicious attachments contain macros or JavaScript files to download the Locky files. Recently, this ransomware has also been distributed using the Nuclear Exploit Kit."
- Locky es un águila calva que hizo su debut en la versión de 16 bits de Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Es uno de los amigos de los animales de Sonic the Hedgehog, que es capturado por el Doctor Robotnik y encarcelado dentro de los Badniks.
- The general Locky resembles a miniature bald eagle, except with a much larger head. They have a black plummage with a white head, two large black eyes, a slightly small but sharp orange beak, large wings for an Animal, and two orange three-toed feet with claws.
- Locky ist ein Charakter aus Sonic the Hedgehog 2. thumb
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