Phishing emails deliver spooky zombie-themed MirCop ransomware

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A new phishing campaign pretending to be supply lists infects users with the MirCop ransomware that encrypts a target system in under fifteen minutes.

The actors begin the attack by sending an unsolicited email to the victim, supposedly following up on a previous arrangement about an order.

The email body contains a hyperlink to a Google Drive URL, which, if clicked, downloads an MHT file (webpage archive) onto the victim’s machine.

Google Drive serves to introduce legitimacy to the email and aligns very well with common day-to-day business practices.
 

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