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Botnet that knows your name and quotes your email is back with new tricks

Getty Images reader comments 9 with Share this story Widely regarded as one of the Internet’s top threats, the Emotet botnet has returned after a months-long hiatus—and it has some new tricks. Last week, Emotet appeared for the first time this year after a four-month hiatus. It returned with its trademark activity—a wave of malicious… Read More »

Microsoft makes major course reversal, allows Office to run untrusted macros

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has stunned core parts of the security community with a decision to quietly reverse course and allow untrusted macros to be opened by default in Word and other Office applications. In February, the software maker announced a major change it said it enacted to combat the growing scourge of ransomware… Read More »