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Your Office Document is at Risk – XLL, A New Attack Vector

February 21, 2023 admin #malwareattack, Cyberattack, cybersecurity, email, Excel, information stealer, malware, Microsoft Office, MS Office, Quick Heal, spyware, Uncategorized, Vulnerability, xll

Credit to Author: Anjali Raut| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:55:22 +0000

Microsoft office documents are used worldwide by both corporates and home-users alike. It’s different office versions, whether…

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MalwareBytes Security

Microsoft appears to be rolling back Office Macro blocking

July 11, 2022 admin Business, Excel, macros, mark of the web, microsoft, office, vba macros, windows, Word

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:12:17 +0000

We waited three decades for macro blocking…and now it’s going away again!

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MalwareBytes Security

“Chemical attack” email warnings deliver Jester Stealer malware

May 10, 2022 admin data theft, Excel, jesterstealer, macros, malware, phishing, Ukraine, web threats

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 12:04:27 +0000

An email warning of supposed chemical attacks that delivers Jester Stealer malware is being sent to people in Ukraine.

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Security Sophos

Malicious doc “builders” abandon old exploits wholesale

September 11, 2018 admin CVE-2012-0158, CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, CVE-2018-4878, document, downloader, dropper, editor, Equation, Excel, maldoc, maldocs, malware, microsoft, MSCOMCTL.OCX, office, PowerPoint, RTF, SophosLabs Uncut, weaponized, Word

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:15:26 +0000

A key piece of the malware ecosystem adopts new vulnerabilities, and scraps old exploits, in record time<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/gKMCGkmvrcQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>