As discussed in an earlier FireEye href="/content/fireeye-www/en_US/blog/threat-research/2016/03/surge_in_spam_campai.html">blog,
we have seen Locky ransomware rise to fame in recent months. Locky is
aggressively distributed via a JavaScript-based downloader sent as an
attachment in spam emails, and may have overshadowed the Dridex
banking Trojan as the top spam contributor.
FireEye Labs recently observed a new development in the way this
ransomware communicates with its control server.