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Spammers Target Government Staffers

  • ZDNet, Wednesday, August 10, 2016 11:47 PM

Security researchers at Proofpoint have identified that a large-scale ransomware campaign that is targeting US government agencies. The messages are  embedded with malicious URLs. When it was first discovered in March, the emails contained a CryptFile2 ransomware and spread via exploit kits downloaded in infected files. But the hackers recently changed their strategy to include the embedded malware links.

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