Hackers Could Hijack Your System When You Open MS Word Doc file

Locky ransomware is spreading at the rate of 4000 new infections per hour, which means approximately 100,000 new infections per day.

Locky ransomeware is being distributed in a Microsoft doc form (which embeds vicious macro function).

WHAT IS LOCKY

Its a malware that uses macros that is been embed to a Microsoft word file type, However the real hacking comes if the file got downloaded to the system and a popup comes  up requesting you to enable macros.

Once you enable the macros, it will force download an executable malware from a  server and run it. And this file is the 'LOCKY' we are talking about, which will encrypt all the files on the computer and make them all .locky files.

Locky ransomware asks victims to pay ($208 - $800) in order to decrypt their files. 

A researcher named Kevin Beaumont along with Larry Abrahms of BleepingComputer initially discovered the existence of Locky encrypted virus.

Among the highly impacted countries include Germany, Netherlands, United States, Croatia, Mali, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland, Argentina and Serbia.

Next week I will make an update post on how to recover your files even if it got caught up in 'Locky'. Stay Tunez.

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