Attackers have rekindled their love affair with Windows macros over the last few years, using the series of automated Office commands as an attack vector to spread malware. And while hackers will surely continue to use macros, at least until the technique becomes ineffective, new research suggests they may be shifting gears and beginning to use...

Among the more than three dozen vulnerabilities Microsoft patched on Tuesday was a fix for a bug that the researcher who found it said has “probably the widest impact in the history of Windows.” “There were also some wide impact vulnerabilities before, but maybe not like this extensive,” Chinese researcher Yang Yu, founder of Tencent’s...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the back and forth around whether or not TeamViewer was hacked, the fallout around the years-old MySpace and Tumblr breaches, and a 90K Windows zero day.

Microsoft is warning of an innovative new technique attackers are using to sneak macro malware past virus detection engines and add to the already huge uptick in reported macro attacks. According to researchers at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center, they stumbled upon the macro technique in a file containing VBA project scripts with a sample of well-known malicious...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including zero day vulnerabilities–both in Adobe Flash and Windows, a nasty vulnerability in SAP business applications, Mozilla asking FBI to disclose a Tor exploit, and more. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_May_13_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

Microsoft released a hefty load of security bulletins today, which included a patch for a JScript and VBScript scripting engine vulnerability being publicly exploited. The flaw is addressed in its own bulletin, MS16-053, but users need to pay attention to, and apply MS16-051 as well since the attack vector is through Internet Explorer. MS16-051 addresses...

The home stretch of Microsoft’s planned SHA-1 deprecation schedule has arrived. This summer, with the planned release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, users should see signs that the weak cryptographic hash function is being phased out. Microsoft said that once the anniversary update is rolled out, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer will no longer...

A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles federated identities via SAML put an attacker in position to have access to any account and data, including email messages and files stored in the cloud-based service. Microsoft pushed through a mitigation to the service on Jan. 5, seven hours after being notified by researchers...

An obscure Windows feature known as hotpatching, missing in the OS since the introduction of Windows 8, is a preferred tool used by a resourced attack group called Platinum that was uncovered by Microsoft. The group has carried out targeted attacks in South and Southeast Asia since at least 2009, focusing primarily on government interests,...

The Mousejack vulnerability raised awareness of the potential risks introduced by a wireless mouse or keyboard to the enterprise. From a relatively short distance, a hacker could send packets to the device that generate keystrokes on the host computer rather than mouse clicks. In short order, attackers could install malware, including dangerous rootkits in a...