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OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade

By: Newsroom โ€” April 18th 2024 at 14:25
Select Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malware called OfflRouter since 2015. Cisco Talos said its findings are based on an analysis of over 100 confidential documents that were infected with the VBA macro virus and uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform since 2018. More than 20 such documents have been uploaded since 2022. "The documents contained VBA
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Albabat, Kasseika, Kuiper: New Ransomware Gangs Rise with Rust and Golang

By: Newsroom โ€” January 29th 2024 at 11:03
Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which detailed the latest iteration of the ransomware, said it's being propagated by means of an infection that delivers a Microsoft Excel document (.XLAM) containing a VBA script. "The attackers utilized the Gitea service to store several files
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LODEINFO Fileless Malware Evolves with Anti-Analysis and Remote Code Tricks

By: Newsroom โ€” January 25th 2024 at 11:30
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an updated version of a backdoor called LODEINFO that's distributed via spear-phishing attacks. The findings come from Japanese company ITOCHU Cyber & Intelligence, which said the malware "has been updated with new features, as well as changes to the anti-analysis (analysis avoidance) techniques." LODEINFO (versions 0.6.6 and 0.6.7
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Office macro security: on-again-off-again feature now BACK ON AGAIN!

By: Paul Ducklin โ€” July 23rd 2022 at 01:10
20 years to turn it on, then 20 weeks to turn it off, then just 2 weeks to turn it back on again. That's progress!

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S3 Ep91: CodeRed, OpenSSL, Java bugs, Office macros [Audio + Text]

By: Paul Ducklin โ€” July 14th 2022 at 18:47
Latest episode - listen now! Great discussion, technical content, solid advice... all covered in plain English.

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That didnโ€™t last! Microsoft turns off the Office security it just turned on

By: Paul Ducklin โ€” July 11th 2022 at 13:27
An Office anti-malware setting that took more than 20 years to arrive... and fewer than 20 weeks to vanish again.

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At last! Office macros from the internet to be blocked by default

By: Paul Ducklin โ€” February 8th 2022 at 16:34
It's been a long time coming, and we're not there yet, but at least Microsoft Office will be a bit safer against macro malware...

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