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Malicious spam spreading banking Trojans | Kaspersky official blog

Jul

2021

For employees facing hundreds of e-mails, the temptation to speed-read and download attachments on autopilot can be great. Cybercriminals, of course, take advantage, sending out seemingly important documents that might contain just about anything from phishing links to malware. Our experts recently discovered two very similar spam campaigns distributing the IcedID and Qbot banking Trojans. […]

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Microsoft adds macros lockdown feature in Office 2016 in response to increasing attacks

Mar

2016

Enterprise system administrators can now block attackers from using a favorite malware infection method: Microsoft Office documents with malicious macros. Microsoft this week added a new option in Office 2016 that allows administrators to block macros — embedded automation scripts — from running in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents that originate from the Internet. Microsoft […]

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March 2012 virus activity review: political spam keeps company with new threats to Mac OS X and Android

Apr

2012

The first spring month in 2012 was unusually “hot” with the emergence of a whole series of new threats to Windows and other platforms. In particular, attackers came up with another way to spread Trojans for Mac OS X, and new malicious applications for Android were discovered. In early March, immediately following the Russian presidential […]

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