LimeRAT Leveraging Read-Only Excel Files to Disguise Exploit Code

A new campaign has been discovered which is leveraging Excel files encrypted using the default password “VelvetSweatshop” to infect machines with LimeRAT. The technique of setting an Excel file to “read-only” using the default password to encrypt an Excel file was frequently used to disguise malicious files between 2012 and 2015 but had not been […]

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