Just days after the FBI issued a private warning to the banking industry (read more here), the botnet network known as Necurs began a spamming campaign that targeted the banking industry. The activity was discovered by the security research firm Cofense. According to Cofense, the Necurs network started a concentrated spear phishing campaign

We previously warned readers about the Locky ransomware, which is potent and designed to use phishing emails to lure users to click on links and attachments, including pdfs.

Now, researchers at Cylance have discovered that a new Locky variant, known as Diablo6, is a variant of Locky, but much more difficult to detect. According to