Windows 10 Ransomware Campaigns Are Already Locking People Out of Their Computers

[frogboy]

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CTB-Locker ransomware campaign spotted in the wild
It only took two days for the first Windows 10 ransomware campaign to be detected, as Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group reports.

As with all ransomware campaigns we've seen recently, attackers have a predisposition to use hot events to trick users into downloading malicious files on their PCs.

Being released two days ago, Windows 10 has already been installed on over 67 million computers, and the numbers are about to go higher since the company is anticipating to hit 1 billion installs.

This makes Windows 10 a hot topic for ransomware campaigns, and the Cisco Talos team has already come upon one of them.

The attackers, using an IP address assigned to Thailand, are distributing carefully-crafted emails to users, inviting them to install Microsoft's Windows 10 OS.


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[LabZero]

This is unfortunately another example of malware attack based on social engineering...

 

[frogboy]

This is unfortunately another example of malware attack based on social engineering...

I have to wonder why people do this sort of thing all the time.

 

[Atlas147]

This is unfortunately another example of malware attack based on social engineering...

And a really good one

 

[marzametal]

*laughs* just goes to show common sense cannot be taught.

 

[frogboy]

*laughs* just goes to show common sense cannot be taught.

So very true.

 

[Cch123]

Maybe together with updates, Microsoft should enforce users to activate Smartscreen too. Imagine the world's largest reputation cloud technology for every user

 

[starchild76]

Thanks for the unteresting reading material froggy