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- Aug 17, 2014
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A concentrated spam campaign pushing ransomware is targeting businesses in Europe, encrypting files and demanding victims pay a ransom in order to retrieve them.
Dubbed PyLocky by researchers, the malware claims to be Locky, but it's totally unrelated to what was one of the most prolific ransomware families of last year.
The new ransomware, which first appeared in July by researchers at Trend Micro shows that the ransomware is focused on targets in Europe, with France a particular target for the malware - by late August, almost two thirds of PyLocky spam was being sent to victims in France, along with a number sent to addresses associated with the New Calendoa, a French territory in the South Pacific.