MalDoc in PDF Attack: Hackers Hiding Malicious Word Files within PDFs

By Habiba Rashid Dubbed MalDoc in PDF attack by researchers, the new attack trend utilizes PDF and Word files to spread malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MalDoc in PDF Attack: Hackers Hiding Malicious Word Files within PDFs...

Hackers are using Microsoft Teams chat to spread malware

By Waqas So far, researchers have identified thousands of these attacks involving abuse of the Microsoft Teams chat feature. As… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers are using Microsoft Teams chat to spread malware...

Microsoft is now disabling Excel 4.0 macros by default

Back in October 2021, Microsoft announced in an email to customers that it planned to disable Excel 4.0 macros by default to protect customers from malicious documents. Last week—after three decades of macro viruses, and three decades of trying to convince every single Excel user individually to...

CVE-2020-26505

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in the “Marmind” web application with version 4.1.141.0 allows an attacker to inject code that will later be executed by legitimate users when they open the assets containing the JavaScript code. This would allow an attacker to perform unauthorized...

Shocker: Scammers Exploit Death of Former Libyan Ruler

In one of the least surprising computer security news events of 2011, the death of longtime Libyan leader, and self-proclaimed “African King of Kings” Colonel Muammar Qaddafi spawned a slew of online scams. Within hours of Qaddafi’s capture and death at the hands of Libyan rebels, security firms...