- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 27th, 2016
Microsoft Backports Office 2016 Anti-Macro-Malware Feature to Office 2013
Users asked Microsoft for this feature in Office 2013
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 21st, 2016
Ancalog Powers Almost Half of Today's Office Exploit-Based Attacks
Ancalog recently rebranded as OffensiveWare
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 23rd, 2016
Clever Malware Is Clever, Adds New Anti-Detection Tricks
Malware gets smarter at avoiding virtual machines
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 3rd, 2016
Renaming Office Files Is Enough to Disguise Macro Malware
Trick abused by macro-malware since the start of the year
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 19th, 2016
Gmail Security Filters Can Be Bypassed Just by Splitting a Word in Two
Trick tested only with Excel exploits for now
- Virus alerts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 26th, 2016
MIRCOP Ransomware Poses as Robbed Anonymous Member
Ransomware crooks take a different approach to extorting cash from their victims, use threatening messages
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 16th, 2016
Microsoft OLE Abused to Embed Malicious Code in Office Docs, Similarly to Macros
Sysadmins should disable OLE object execution
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 10th, 2016
How a Bad UI Decision from Microsoft Helped Macro Malware Make a Comeback
US-CERT warns about a rise in macro malware
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 9th, 2016
Malicious Macros in Office Documents Find New Tricks to Evade Detection
New campaign of improved macros started at the end of May
- Spam Reports
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 1st, 2016
Phishing Emails Increase 789 Percent, Ransomware Is Their Favorite Payload
Cryptowall, Locky and TeslaCrypt were the most popular
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 23rd, 2016
Middle East Banks Under Attack via Malicious Excel Files
No data breaches yet, just a reconnaissance campaign
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 22nd, 2016
Microsoft Adds New Feature in Office 2016 That Can Block Macro Malware
How-to guide also included, showing sysadmins how to protect their enterprises from some malicious macro malware
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 15th, 2015
The Return of Macro Malware and Other Malware Trends
Fileless malware evolves, is now harder to detect
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 27th, 2015
Banking Trojan Sent to Firms in the US via Email from Automated Clearing House
Telemetry data shows users in the US are most affected