Security News > 2017 > March > Sushi or pizza? Mac or Windows threat? (Help Net Security)
2017-03-23 16:44
Fortinet researchers have made an unusual find: a malicious Word file that is meant to target both OS X and Windows users. As has lately become the norm, when opened, the file requests users to enable macros in order to see its contents. If the user does that, it allows the file to execute executing malicious VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code. The code calls a function, which extracts, decodes and runs an encoded Python … More →
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