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New social engineering scheme triggers on mouse movement

This attack uses mouse movement to launch malicious code in booby-trapped documents. Attack abuses the hyperlink feature to launch a Powershell command as soon as the user moves their mouse cursor over that link. Malwarebytes users were already protected against this threat thanks to our Application Behavior Protection: The fact that it does not need a macro is novel is novel and triggers on mouse activity is a clever move. There is no doubt threat actors will keep on coming up with various twists to abuse the human element.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/06/new-social-engineering-scheme-triggers-on-mouse-movement/

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