Attackers are slowly abandoning malicious macros

Malicious macro-enabled documents as vehicles for email-based malware delivery are being used less and less, Proofpoint researchers have noticed. Threat actors are switching to email attachments using Windows Shortcut (LNK) files and container file formats instead. The popularity decline of malicious macros “According to an analysis of campaigned threats, which include threats manually analyzed and contextualized by Proofpoint threat researchers, the use of macro-enabled attachments by threat actors decreased approximately 66% between October 2021 and … More →

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