LOCKY RANSOMWARE

LOCKY quite a derogatory name !

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LOCKY is a ransomware that scrambles and renames all your files with .locky extension, released in 2016 LOCKY is an email-worm and macro virus Trojan program similar to Cryptolocker.

This ransomware is spread through email with an attached MS-Word document containing the malicious macros to thousands of computers.
When the victim enables the macros setting in the word, the macros then save and run a binary file that downloads the actual encryption Trojan, which will encrypt all files to a unique 16-digit combination using the
RSA-2048 and AES-1024 algorithms.
**The files could be decrypted using a decrypter given by criminals costing 0.5 BitCoins.


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