Security experts at Sophos have detected a surge in cyber attacks based on VBA malware. VBA Malware accounted for 28 percent of all malware attack detected in July, up from just six percent in June. Experts discovered different VBA downloader templates, which contain VBA code and instructions on how to package their malicious code and how to obfuscate it. The threat posed by Visual Basic malware should not be underestimated, as explained in the post the experts detected numerous variants implementing creative techniques to infect victims machines.”]
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