Security News > 2016 > September > Macro-based malware evolves to bypass traditional defenses (Help Net Security)
Macro-based malware is growing into full-featured malware capable of detecting and bypassing traditional security tools, Barkly researchers have discovered. Macro-based malware: The past Malware peddlers have been misusing Word macros to deliver malware for nearly fifteen years. The approach, which takes advantage of the macros’ capability to automatically execute a series of instructions as a single command, has initially been used in the early 2000s. As users became accustomed to it, this malware delivery tactic … More →
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