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By SARA BARKER – A Locky ransomware variant is doing the rounds again and this time it is disguising itself as not only common vendors, but also office equipment from Konica Minolta.

Researchers from Comodo’s Threat Intelligence Lab spotted the campaign in September, which is able to hide from machine learning and algorithm-based tools.

It uses social engineering to infect machines with Locky ransomware, encrypt data and ask for a ransom of between 0.5 to one Bitcoin (US$4000).


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