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Locky ransomware returns to the game with two new flavors

A fresh malicious spam campaign pushed through the Necurs botnet pushing two new variants of Locky ransomware. Locky made another reappearance using a new file extension diablo6 to encrypt files with the rescue note: Diablo6-[random].htm A new Locky variant is pushing a new variant Lukitus and the extension lukitus.html. We should never assume Locky is gone simply because its not active at a given time.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/08/locky-ransomware-returns-to-the-game-with-two-new-flavors/

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