Phishing Campaign Delivers Nasty Ransomware, Credential-Theft Two-Punch

An array of phishing emails harboring Word attachments with embedded macros have been infecting systems with a deadly malware and ransomware duo. The campaign, spotted by researchers at Carbon Black, has hit infected systems with a lethal attack combination that harvests credentials, gathers syst...

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your comput...

Updated GravityRAT Malware Adds Advanced AV Detection

Researchers tracking the evolution of the remote access trojan GravityRAT warn that developers behind the malware have made key changes to the RAT’s code in an attempt to decrease antivirus detection. “We’ve seen file exfiltration, remote command execution capability and anti-vm techniques added...

CVE-2017-6324

The Symantec Messaging Gateway, when processing a specific email attachment, can allow a malformed or corrupted Word file with a potentially malicious macro through despite the administrator having the 'disarm' functionality enabled. This constitutes a 'bypass' of the disarm functionality residen...

The EPS Awakens

On September 8, FireEye published details about an attack exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office CVE-2015-2545 and Windows CVE-2015-2546. The attack was particularly notable because it leveraged PostScript to drive memory corruption in a way that had never been seen before. The...