Early this year Microsoft reported an increase in macro-related threats being used to spread malware via spam. Similarly, we’ve been seeing a drastic increase in spammed emails with attached Microsoft Word documents and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that come with embedded macros. Macros are a set of commands or code that are meant to help automate…
Read MoreThroughout course of my monitoring future and possible targeted attacks, I recently chanced upon a spear-phishing email sent to an undisclosed recipient that contains three seemingly harmless documents. I was curious about the attached documents so I first checked the one titled AlSajana Youth Center financial Report.docx. The so-called financial report turned out to be…
Read MoreMicrosoft has disclosed that a new zero-day vulnerability is present in Windows, and is exploited via Microsoft Office files. According to Microsoft Security Advistory 3010060, the vulnerability is present in all supported versions of Windows except Windows Server 2003. The vulnerability (designated as CVE-2014-6352) is triggered by an attacker sending a specially crafted Microsoft Office file…
Read MoreTwo out of seven bulletins in today’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday are tagged as critical while the rest are marked as important. The critical bulletins addressed a number of vulnerabilities found existing in Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer, which when exploited could allow remote code execution, thus compromising the security of the systems. Perhaps the most…
Read MoreIt’s Patch Tuesday again, and Microsoft has served up eight bulletins this month, three of them rated Critical. One of the three critical bulletins – MS13-090 – deserves special mention, as it fixes a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-3918) found just last week in an Internet Explorer ActiveX control. Separately, IE itself fixed ten vulnerabilities as part…
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