World's Biggest Botnet Just Sent 12.5 Million Emails With Scarab Ransomware

A massive malicious email campaign that stems from the world's largest spam botnet Necurs is spreading a new strain of ransomware at the rate of over 2 million emails per hour and hitting computers across the globe.

Massive Email Campaign Spreads Scarab Ransomware

The spam email contains a malicious VBScript downloader compressed with 7zip that pulls down the final payload, with one of these subject lines:

• Scanned from Lexmark
• Scanned from Epson
• Scanned from HP
• Scanned from Canon

Protection Against Ransomware

To safeguard against such ransomware infection, you should always be suspicious of any uninvited document sent over an email and should never click on links provided in those documents unless verifying the source.

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