random invoices – word doc or excel xls spreadsheet malware

Last revised or Updated on: 17th February, 2016, 8:59 AMWe have 2 concurrent runs of malspam this morning both  with similar email subjects about invoices  pretending to come from random companies  with a malicious word doc or Excel XLS spreadsheet attachment  is another one from the current bot runs which try to download various Trojans and password stealers especially banking Trojans like Dridex or Dyreza and ransomware like cryptolocker or Teslacrypt. They are using email addresses and subjects that will scare or entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers. The 1st email looks … Continue reading →