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  • Vawtrak trojan spread through malicious Office macros

    Users easily tricked, but plenty of opportunity for the malware to be blocked. Researchers at Trend Micro report that the ‘Vawtrak’ banking trojan now also spreads through Office macros, embedded in documents that are attached to spam emails. Vawtrak rose to prominence late last year, when it broadened its scope from targeting Japanese banking users…

  • Adobe to patch Flash Player zero-day next week

    Patch due next week as malvertising leads to Bedep trojan downloader. As the news of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe ‘s Flash Player actively being exploited reached the security community, the company made an out-of-band patch available on its website. It now appears that this update – version 16.0.0.287 – patches another vulnerability ( CVE-2015-0310…

  • Explosive growth of malicious spam

    Spam filters less likely to block current malware campaigns. While several reports show that the global levels of spam have seen a steady decline over the past year, this month has seen a spike in the number of spam messages with malicious attachments, security firm M86 reports. Using well-known tricks to deceive users, including subject…

  • Legitimate program becomes trojan downloader

    Website of FlashGet attacked; malicious ‘update’ automatically downloaded. By hacking into the website of popular Windows download manager FlashGet , cybercriminals have managed to turn the software into a trojan-downloader. Like many programs, FlashGet regularly connects to its developer’s website to see if there are any updates to be installed. However, attackers have managed to…