Watchout - Fake Windows 10 Upgrade (phishing) mail carries Ransomware

Anyone surprised?

Every time there is a popular news (need not be good news, it can be bad news like Hurricane), there is always a surge in SPAM /PHISHING emails trying to get you.


From the Article:

Researchers at Cisco TALOS said on Friday they spotted spam carrying an archived attachment from an email address in Thailand spoofing update at Microsoft[.]com. Users who download and execute the files inside the zip archive are hit by the CTB-Locker brand of ransomware. 

CTB-Locker behaves like most strains of crypto-ransomware; it’s spread via email, exploit kits or drive-by downloads, encrypts documents stored on the computers and demands a ransom paid in Bitcoin in exchange for the encryption key. This campaign gives users a 96-hour window to deliver payment, which is shorter than other campaigns making use of CTB-Locker.

For More info:
https://threatpost.com/windows-10-upgrade-spam-carries-ctb-locker-ransomware/114114