We haven’t seen any Formbook malware / Trojan / Info-Stealer hitting the UK for ages, so it was quite surprising to see this one arrive overnight. Unlike previous versions who generally used exploits or macros / embedded ole objects in Microsoft Office to deliver the payload, this is a simple .exe file inside a zip that pretends to be an Excel Spreadsheet if you don’t have “show known file types” enabled in windows, so making it more likely for an unsuspecting user to click on it & open & run the file. As usual for Formbook, as soon as the … Continue reading →