RevoWorks incomplete filtering of MS Office v4 macros

Overview RevoWorks SCVX, RevoWorks Browser and RevoWorks Desktop provided by J's Communication Co., Ltd. enables users to execute web browsers, accessing drives, folders, files and registries in a sandboxed environment. Users can download files from the internet to the sandboxed environment,...

Emotet Now Using Unconventional IP Address Formats to Evade Detection

Social engineering campaigns involving the deployment of the Emotet malware botnet have been observed using "unconventional" IP address formats for the first time in a bid to sidestep detection by security solutions. This involves the use of hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address...

Stealthy ‘WIRTE’ Gang Targets Middle Eastern Governments

A threat actor tracked as WIRTE has been assaulting Middle East governments since at least 2019 using “living-off-the-land” techniques and malicious Excel 4.0 macros. On Monday, Kaspersky reported that it observed the group in February using Microsoft Excel droppers, which planted hidden...

At long last, Microsoft is disabling Excel 4.0 macros by default

Sometimes good news in the security world comes unexpectedly. This is one of those times. After three decades of macro viruses, and three decades of trying to convince every single Excel user individually to disable macros, Microsoft is going disable Excel 4.0 macros for everyone. Better late tha...