Antivirus has struggled to keep up with Locky, taking over 24 hours to add detection for each new daily version. By the end of the day well over 100,000 new endpoints will be infected with the Locky virus. The deployment of Locky was a masterpiece of criminality the infrastructure is highly developed, it was tested in the wild on a small scale on Monday (ransomware beta testing, basically), and the ransomware is translated into many languages. Many organisations are simply paying for the decrypter, which is basically paying your hostage takers for freedom.”]
Source: https://doublepulsar.com/you-your-endpoints-and-the-locky-virus-b49ef8241bea