Macro-based malware continues to gain traction

  • 25 March 2015
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Posted on 25.03.2015
 
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 Zeus info-stealer or, more recently, crypto-ransomware - but macro-based malware is slowly gaining traction:

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