Necurs botnet

The Necurs botnet is a distributor of many pieces of malware, most notably Locky.

Reports

Around June 1, 2016, the botnet went offline, perhaps due to a glitch in the command and control server running Necurs. However, three weeks later, Jon French from AppRiver discovered a spike in spam emails, signifying either a temporary spike in the botnet's activity or return to its normal pre-June 1 state.^[1][2]

In a 2020 report, it was noted to have particularly targeted India, Southeast Asia, Turkey and Mexico.^[3]

Distributed malware

Source:^[4]

• Bart
• Dridex
• Locky
• RockLoader
• Globeimposter

See also

• Conficker
• Command and control (malware)
• Gameover ZeuS
• Operation Tovar
• Timeline of computer viruses and worms
• Tiny Banker Trojan
• Torpig
• Zeus (malware)
• Zombie (computer science)