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Microsoft VBA macro trojan horses are back

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/macro_viruses_return_from_the_dead/

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Security improvements in Microsoft Office products blocked many such
attacks, propelling macro viruses towards extinction in the process.

Yet recently macro malware has been making a return. Security
researcher Gabor “Szappi” Szappanos of Sophos reports that more than
half of the document-based attacks seen recently contain VBA macros
aimed at tricking the user, rather than more esoteric exploit code
designed to trick Office itself.
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Yay, let's hear it for social engineering! <barf>  Got to love El Reg's
title though: "Panic like it's 1999."

Maybe the most depressing part of it is realizing, despite all the
progress, just how little progress we've made.  That article about
motherfuckingwebsite reminded me: despite all the new technologies and
platforms and frameworks, it's still just a website: text and pictures
on the web.  Meanwhile, threats like these ones still exist.

-- 
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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Microsoft VBA macro trojan horses are back RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-09 15:00 +0000

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