Threat Post

Tool Scans for RTF Files Spreading Malware in Targeted Attacks

Exploits embedded inside Microsoft Office documents such as Word, PDFs and Excel spreadsheets have been at the core of many targeted attacks during the past 24 months. Detection of these attack ...
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FIN7 Hitting Restaurants with Fileless Malware

A campaign attributed to the FIN7 attackers targets restaurants with phishing emails and infected RTF Word documents that carry out fileless malware attacks. FIN7, closely associated with the ...
Bleeping Computer

New SVCReady malware loads from Word doc properties

A previously unknown malware loader named SVCReady has been discovered in phishing attacks, featuring an unusual way of loading the malware from Word documents onto compromised machines. More ...
Bleeping Computer

Bitter cyberspies target South Asian govts with new malware

New activity has been observed from Bitter, an APT group focused on cyberespionage, targeting the government of Bangladesh with new malware with remote file execution capabilities. The campaign has ...
Dark Reading

RTF Design, Office Flaw Exploited in Multi-Stage Document Attack

A newly discovered multi-stage document attack exploits design behaviors in .docx and RTF, along with CVE-2017-8570, to drop a malicious payload called Formbook on target endpoints. Attackers bypass ...