2016: a year of ransomware in spam

According to Kaspersky Lab “Spam and phishing in 2016”report, about 20% of all spam emails in Q4 2016distributed ransomware Trojans. The Kaspersky Lab spam report also identified the following trends in 2016:

Marlboro Ransomware Alert

2017 has just begin and with that a new wave of ransomware has emerged. Two of the extreme cases of new variants have been discovered by researchers, Spora for one is one