Experts at S21sec firm recently detected a new ransomware campaign based on TorrentLocker that infected users prevalently in Italy and Spain.
The last report published by Trend Micro revealed that ransomware represents a serious cyber threat in the EMEA region, where countries like Italy and Spain observed over 80% of the affected users.Recently S21sec detected a new ransomware campaign based on TorrentLocker malware that appears very active in Italy and Spain.
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The malware is spread through spam emails containing a link to the malware.
The spam campaign was observed in the first couple days of December, it was active until December 5th when the C&C servers went dark and stop any activity.
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