Microsoft Reports Massive Increase in Macros-Enabled Threats

18th February 2015

The Microsoft Malware Protection Center says there has been a dramatic increase in threats using macros to spread malware via spam and social engineering over the last month. Macros are used for automating frequently used tasks in Office. Macro-related infections were constant and near zero daily up until Dec. 4. Infections spiked ...

Microsoft Warns of Malicious Macros Targeting Users in the UK and the US

8th January 2015

Two malware pieces have been delivered to users in the UK and the US via malicious email campaigns relying on social engineering to trick users into enabling macros in their Microsoft Office programs. Macros are simple instructions designed to help users in their work with components of the Office suite by allowing them to automate repetitive ...

Attackers Abuse UPnP Devices in DDoS Attacks, Akamai Warns

18th October 2014

Researchers at Akamai Technologies have issued a warning about a spate of distributed denial-of-service attacks being launched via Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) devices. According to Akamai's Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert), there has been a spike in reflection and amplification distributed denial-of-service ...

Drupal Fixes Highly Critical SQL Injection Flaw

17th October 2014

Drupal has patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability in version 7.x of the content management system that can allow arbitrary code execution. The flaw lies in an API that is specifically designed to help prevent against SQL injection attacks. “Drupal 7 includes a database abstraction API to ensure that queries executed against the ...

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