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Have you opened an Excel document recently? You may have been hacked
HACKERS are said to be ‘weaponising’ Excel documents so they can take over corporate networks.
The cybercriminals are reportedly targeting employees at financial companies via a new phishing email campaign.
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According to TechRadar, the campaign is being called “MirrorBlast”.
It was first detected in September this year by cybersecurity firm ET Labs.
Another company called Morphisec then investigated the issue and revealed all in a blog post.
It said that the bad Excel files can bypass malware detecting systems.
The blog explains: “Morphisec Labs tracked a new MirrorBlast campaign targeting financial services organizations.
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“MirrorBlast is delivered via a phishing email that contains malicious links which download a weaponized Excel document.
“MirrorBlast has low detections on VirusTotal due to the extremely lightweight macro embedded in its Excel files, making it particularly dangerous for organizations that depend on detection-based security and sandboxing.”
Morphisec thinks a Russian-based criminal group called TA505 could be behind the malicious campaign.
To avoid falling victim to a phishing campaign like this you should never click on suspicious links in emails.
Avoid downloading suspicious files and alert your company if you think you have been targeted.
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