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Spoofed IRS notice delivers RAT through link updating trick

22

Sep

2017

The malware delivery trick involving updating links in Word documents is apparently gaining some traction: the latest campaign to use it likely takes the form of fake emails from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The fake email includes an attachment, supposedly a CP2000 notice, which is sent by the IRS when the income and/or payment […]

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Macro-based malware continues to gain traction

25

Mar

2015

After having “rediscovered” the usefulness of MS Office macros, malware peddlers have been ramping up email spam runs delivering documents that request users to enable them. Those that do open the door for macro-based Trojans droppers and, consequently, other malware. The Upatre downloader is still the most popular way to deliver malware – usually the […]

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CVE-2012-0158 – Now Being Used in More Tibetan-Themed Targeted Attack Campaigns

17

Apr

2012

Days after Microsoft released six bulletins, we now have just spotted a number of Trojanized RTF files circulating in-the-wild. The said files are exploiting CVE-2012-0158, which is included in MS12-027. That particular bulletin affects a number of Microsoft programs, particularly versions of MS Office, Visual FoxPro, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, as well as SQL Server. […]

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