March 11, 2020

Microsoft leaves critical bug unpatched on Patch Tuesday

Microsoft fixed bugs across a range of products on patch Tuesday, issuing patches for 115 distinct CVEs, with 26 rated critical.

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January 07, 2020

IT exec sets up fake biz to scam his employer out of $6m

He cooked up an IT vendor, its invoices, its vapor-gear, and the phantom employees who never showed up to do all those services.

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July 18, 2019

A new Equation Editor exploit goes commercial, as maldoc attacks using it spike

Weaponized RTF documents adopt CVE-2018-0798, another Equation Editor vulnerability

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December 07, 2018

Flash zero-day exploit spotted – patch now!

If you’re among the holdouts still running Flash, you have some more updating homework to do.

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October 29, 2018

Researchers exploit Microsoft Word through embedded video

A group of researchers has found a way to infect computers via Word documents without triggering a security warning.

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June 20, 2017

SophosLabs analysis: why the surge in Word docs hiding ransomware?

The bad guys are using old tricks to hide very modern nasty surprises in Word documents. We take a look at how they're doing that

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May 31, 2017

Wolf in sheep’s clothing: a SophosLabs investigation into delivering malware via VBA

SophosLabs gets under the skin of the bad guys' latest attempt to drop ransomware on to your PCs

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February 07, 2017

AKBuilder is the latest exploit kit to target Word documents, spread malware

Make sure you keep Office patched to protect against malicious Word documents generated by the AKBuilder exploit kit

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September 30, 2015

Selfies, sharks…and yet another lock screen bug [Chet Chat Podcast 216]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... Enjoy the latest episode of our weekly podcast!

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