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Another vital Windows tool is being abused to sideload malware

05

Jan

2023

Cybercriminals have been spotted sideloading malware(opens in new tab) onto vulnerable Windows endpoints through a legitimate Windows Problem Reporting tool called WerFault.exe. According to researchers from K7 Security Labs, which first discovered the campaign, hackers (presumably from China) would send out a phishing email containing an ISO file. ISO is an optical disk image file […]

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FBI warns of imposter ads in search results

05

Jan

2023

The FBI has issued a public notice which includes advice to block adverts. Why? Let’s take a look. The bogus advert tightrope It’s no secret that rogue ads have been a particular plague on the Internet for as far back as we can remember. From irritating pop ups and spinning “You’ve won a prize” banners […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Phishing Written by Malwarebytes 0 Comments

APT Hackers Turn to Malicious Excel Add-ins as Initial Intrusion Vector

28

Dec

2022

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 […]

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