“The dangerous and as-yet-undefeated Locky ransomware is being hurled at hospitals across the United States and Japan in a ‘massive’ number of attacks, according to FireEye researcher Ronghwa Chong.
Locky is a popular ransomware variant that will encrypt files in a way that forces users to pay ransoms or cut their losses and purge data.
This month the already increasingly hammered health sector is copping a massive spray of phishing attacks bearing the Locky ransomware”
Source: FireEye warns ‘massive’ ransomware campaign hits US, Japan hospitals • The Register
