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DocuSign warns of a breach and subsequent theft of email addresses that are part of a phishing campaign that employs malicious macro-laced Word documents.
Cybercriminals have developed macro malware for the macOS, the first time this technique has been spotted on the Apple platform.
Document-based macro malware flies under the security radar by first detecting existing documents on PC.
A massive Locky ransomware campaign spotted this month targets primarily the healthcare sector and is delivered in phishing campaigns. The payload, researchers at FireEye said, is dropped via .DOCM attachments, which are macro-enabled Office 2007 Word documents. Especially hard hit are hospitals in the United States followed by Japan, Korea and Thailand, according to research published Wednesday by...
Starting in April security experts at FireEye spotted a massive uptick in Cerber ransomware attacks delivered via a rolling wave of spam. Researchers there link the Cerber outbreaks to the fact that attackers are now leveraging the same spam infrastructure credited for making the potent Dridex financial Trojan extremely dangerous. Cerber, which is best known...