It may be possible that in the upcoming future we may see the group behind the Locky ransomware use MHT (MHTML) files as email attachments and deliver their malicious payload to victims' machines.

There were already a number of reasons to not use Internet Explorer. But if you needed another one, here it is. The zero-day exploit itself lies within Internet Explorer’s use of MHT files when ...

Exploitation is possible when users open a specially-crafted MHT file that was downloaded with Microsoft's Edge browser. This type of files are MHTML Web Archives, the default format Internet ...

Basically, what this means is that hackers are taking advantage of a vulnerability using .MHT files, which is the file format used by Internet Explorer for its web archives.

Internet Explorer's support for .MHT files means this method could be used on Windows fans that have never used the browser, but still have it installed.

As Page explains (via ZDNet), the vulnerability taps into a file extension known as .MHT, which is a format used by Internet Explorer to handle archived web pages. If you were to launch Internet ...