Microsoft’s decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default for Office files downloaded from the internet has led many threat actors to improvise their attack chains in recent months. Now according to Cisco Talos, advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and commodity malware families alike are increasingly using Excel add-in (.XLL) files as […]
When it comes to nation-state hackers, Russian and Chinese operations are always in the limelight. Microsoft, for instance, just released the 2021 Digital Defense Report pointing a finger at Russia as making up 58% of all nation-state cyberattack incidents observed by the corporation. With numbers like that and a focus on ransomware, it is easy […]
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) themed malware attacks are now common. The subject matter automatically contains at least two of the primary social engineering triggers, fear and urgency, making it an obvious lure for use by criminals. Even a long-standing China-based APT has begun to use the threat in a new spear-phishing campaign. Researchers from Check Point Research […]
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