[2016-05-27] Amazon Spear Phishing Campaign Spreads Locky Ransomware

[jdebunt]

Comodo Threat Research Labs discovered this spear phishing campaign. Security researchers labeled it as one of the largest spam ransomware attacks of 2016. This attack took place on May 17 and last for twelve hours. During this time, 30 million spam messages have been sent out to Amazon users under the disguise of being an order shipment update notification.

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