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Malware Roasting on that Open File

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It?s the season of giving and unfortunately, malware authors are feeling generous. A Trojan detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_PPDROP.K is being spammed through email as a PowerPoint slideshow with the filename Merry Christmas.pps-1. When the user opens the file, it exploits an older, known vulnerability in unpatched Microsoft Excel versions — which then extracts [...]




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