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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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
