How opening a MS Word Doc can hijack every file on your system!

If you receive a mail masquerading as a company's invoice and containing a Microsoft Word file, think twice before clicking on it.Doing so could cripple your system and could lead to a catastrophic destruction.Hackers are believed to be carrying out social engineering hoaxes by adopting eye-catching subjects in the spam emails and compromised websites to lure the victims into installing a deadly ransomware, dubbed "Locky," into their systems.So if you find .locky extension files on your network shares,Congratulations! You are infected and left with just two solutions: Rebuild your PC from scratch or Pay the ransom.Locky ransomware is spreading at the rate of 4000 new infections per hour, which means approximately 100,000 new infections per day.

Source & Credit : http://thehackernews.com/2016/02/locky-ransomware-decrypt.html

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