Spam with a .7z file extension

broken image

Ransomware spreads in various ways through the interconnected network of computers via the internet. Some malware researchers also dubbed this virus as 7Z Locker due to the appended extension and archive state of the infected data. The current name of this ransomware may have derived from the name on the ransomware site. This threat is identified by several anti-virus vendors as FileCoder, Crypt, or Heur-Ransom. 7z as suffix, it implies that system is infected with Qlocker ransomware. If computer files are appended with strings of extension including.

broken image