Pay Up or Get WannaCry Hit Extortion Email Spreading

Sophos warns of a protection racket scam email that threatens to infect victims with the ransomware variant if they dont pay the attackers.

A widespread new email scam purportedly from the WannaCry hackers attempts to shake down potential victims with threats of the ransomware if they dont pay up-front.
But according to Sophos, which spotted the scam, the attackers dont really have the WannaCry malware in hand. Simply put, its a protection racket, where youre being stood over to prevent bad things happening, rather than a ransom-based racket, where you are being squeezed to recover from bad things that already happened, said Sophos senior security advisor Paul Ducklin in a post today.
Sophos, which investigated the scam, says not to pay or contact the scammers, and to use the proper security hygiene of patching and good backups.
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