Whether it's a financial or educational institution, a Fortune 500 company or a small business with a digital presence, their brand, customers and employees are phishing and ultimately ransomware targets.
A recent second wave of a Locky ransomware variant dubbed IKARUSdilapidated uses a botnet of zombie computers to coordinate phishing attacks from an organization's scanner/printer, or other legitimate source.
The cybercriminal's goal: encrypt the victims' computers and demand a bitcoin ransom, according to a blog from Clifton, N.J. based Comodo Threat Intelligence Lab, which discovered the new threat.
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