We haven’t seen macro viruses for a while, but they are back. HawkEye a new variant of the resurgent use of unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and other office documents. Using macros, written in Visual Basic, attackers are using Word document attachments to run code on victim computers.
Last week we wrote about the Locky ransomware exploit that encrypts your data ...
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Dyre Wolf is one version in the family of banking Trojans that started with Zeus and NeverQuest, and now includes Dridex, SpyEye, Shylock,Shifu, Gozi, and Tinba. Banking Trojans are designed to sit unnoticed on your computer, and to capture your banking and financial login credentials and send them to criminals who use the information to empty your accounts. They are among the worst exploits that can happen to you, followed closely ...
Some of the nastiest exploits going around are the many variants of the CryptoLocker and CryptoWall malware that encrypt all your personal files and hold them for ransom. Payment in bitcoin is required, in amounts starting at $200 and ranging upward to the $17,000 (400 BTC) that Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital just paid to unlock their files. Or even more. The amount will be whatever the attackers think they can extract from the victim.
Last Friday we dove down the WordPress Security bunny hole to chase the Aethera botnet and the other attack platform that WordFence reported. Today we are looking a their new 
