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Locky claimed top spot for email-based malware in Q2, overtaking Dridex, a banking trojan. Many Locky and Dridex slingers turned to JavaScript files attached to email messages to install payloads, email security firm Proofpoint warns. Among email attacks that used malicious document attachments, 69 per cent featured the new …

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  1. Locky

    To be fair

    People have been saying this about me for years

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  2. Novex
    Facepalm

    Am I right...

    ...in thinking that in order for a javascript file attached to an email to be able to work, it would have to be proactively opened by the user, in their browser? Are people still doing that? Are email clients still allowing such things to be done? Really??

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  3. sixit

    Plain-Text Wins Again

    And this is just one reason I only read email in plain-text.

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