Look before you open
For past five days, Nearly 200,000 computers has been threatned by the creepy Wannacry ransomware. Before coming out of it. Cyber criminals has started another spreading another two ransomware series across the world. Though, the attack rate is not so high compare to wannacry. But the spread of the ransomware at this time created a chaos environment. A new ransomware named Jaff has been threatning the online users in a wide range to pay the ransom about $3,300 in bitcoins to decrypt their files. Last week, some actors made a malicious email campaign across the globe to spread this ransomware at the rate of five million emails to single account in a hour. Security researchers says,' Jaff Ransomware written in C language has been distributed with the ever known Necurs botnet that currently controls over 6 million infected computers worldwide.' Necurs botnet, the distributor to many popular malwares was remained silence till last month. Last week, actors behind the ransomware started to send malicious emails from morning 9 am to 1 pm. It has been recorded that, around thirteen million emails has been sent in the mentioned time. Necurs botnet has sends mails to millions of users with an pdf document containing malicious macro script. As soon as the victim opens the email atttachment, the malicious file executes the ransomware and infects the files. According to malware_traffic,' It's the same type of malspam we've seen before with PDF attachments containing embedded Word documents (with malicious macros) --> follow-up malware.' Similar to Wannacry, this ransomware infection spreads via mails. but the uniqueness of this malware is the method, which it uses. So, researchers across the world advised the internet users, enterprises, journalists and media organisations to ensure the type of file, they receive.And this ransomware is spread by a normal, but malicious pdf file attached in a mail. So, check before you open and think before you pay to those actors. Also, users are requested to scan the files and attachments from the multiple times, which you recieve through mails. And stay updated to prevent from ransomware infection.
