A ransomware strain known as Scarab is now being pushed to millions of users via Necurs, the Internet’s largest email spam botnet. The spam campaign started in the early hours of the morning (EU timezones) and has been spotted by all security researchers not busy celebrating Thanksgiving. By noon, Necurs had already sent out 12.5 million emails carrying what appeared to be a new version of the Scarab ransomware. Scarab also drops a ransom note named “IF YOU WANT TO GET ALL YOUR FILES BACK
Source: security