The National Police warns of the existence of a new distribution campaign of the Lockbit Locker ransomware by sending emails.
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The campaign, with a very high level of sophistication, is directed against architecture companies, although it is not ruled out that they extend their action to other sectors.
The Central Cybercrime Unit of the National Police has, among other objectives, to prevent the propagation, diffusion and infection of ICT equipment with malicious software.
Within this function, cyber agents have detected the sending of emails to architecture companies from a non-existent domain of the “fotoprix.eu” type.
In the email, the cybercriminals impersonate the photographic company and request a budget to carry out a reform in their facilities.
After exchanging several emails, the attackers propose to set a date to hold a meeting and thus be able to specify the budget, although, as a prerequisite, they send a file containing documents with the specifications of the reform, so that the architecture company adjust the budget as much as possible to the needs.
When downloading the file and executing it on the computer, the terminal is automatically encrypted. Immediately afterwards, the cybercriminals request a ransom to recover the files, whose instructions are reflected in a .txt file that is copied to the affected computer.
The agents have verified that the campaign has reached a very high level of sophistication since the cybercriminals' communications are completely consistent and congruent, so that the victims do not suspect anything until they experience the encryption.
To avoid being a victim of these attacks:
1. Do not open emails from unknown senders or from whom prior information has not been requested
2. Do not download email attachments from unknown senders
3. Always keep the operating system and antivirus updated
4. Regularly perform independent backups ■
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