Another malware wave hits Europe, mainly downloading ransomware Locky

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Content source

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/05/26/malware-hits-europe-ransomware-locky/

ESET LiveGrid® telemetry shows a spike in detections of the JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment malware in several European countries. The most notable detection ratios are seen in Luxembourg (67%), Czech Republic (60%), Austria (57%), Netherlands (54%) and the UK (51%), but also in other European states.

After arriving as an email attachment, the threat behind these detections is designed to download and install different variants of malware to victims’ machines.

If the user falls for the scam, JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment tries to download other malicious code, the majority of which consists of various crypto-ransomware families such as Locky.

Prevalence levels

• Luxembourg: 67%
• Austria: 57%
• Netherlands: 54%
• Germany: 48%
• Denmark: 48%
• Sweden: 46%
• Belgium: 45 %
• Spain: 42%
• Finland: 42%
• Norway: 40%
• France: 36%
• Portugal: 30%
• Poland: 26%

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"The most notable detection ratios"

If these % values means "detected by security software", then could we infer that lower % means higher infection !?