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Attackers have begun using rigged Microsoft Word documents propagated via spearphishing emails to spread the BlackEnergy Trojan. Researchers with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team discovered a malicious Word document last week that appears to stem from a campaign against one of the malware’s favorite targets, Ukraine. Russian-speaking actors with the BlackEnergy APT group have...
28 September 2015 - 21:10, by , in News, No comments
If you’ve ever fallen into the work-day habit of opening random programs (.EXE files) that came in via email, you’ve probably ended up in trouble with IT. Or looking for another job. Legitimate software hardly ever gets distributed by email, so those .EXE attachments are almost always malware: viruses, worms, password stealers, ransomware, banking Trojans,...
8 September 2015 - 12:58, by , in News, No comments
Thanks to Gabor Szappanos of SophosLabs for his behind-the-scenes work on this article. SophosLabs has drawn our attention to a new wave of malware attacks using a recent security bug in Microsoft Word. The bug, known as CVE-2015-1641, was patched by Microsoft back in April 2015 in security bulletin MS15-033. The vulnerability was declared to...