CISOs with IT environments running older versions of Microsoft Office must upgrade immediately or risk the suite being used to spread malware using an old trick. This warning comes from Cisco Systems’ Talos threat intelligence service, after it discovered several new documents created in Office that try to spread malware through Visual Basic macros. Threat […]
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An actively exploited security bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is being exploited in a new stealer campaign to download malicious executables on the victim’s system. Tracked as CVE-2024-21412, the vulnerability allows threat actors to bypass SmartScreen warnings using specially crafted internet shortcut files, leading to the execution of malware without user intervention. “FortiGuard Labs […]