QakBot malware poses a high security risk
The QakBot malware harbors a high security risk due to the often low detection rate. QakBot is distributed through XLSB files, making it difficult to spot. Qakbot is not new to malware, but the Hornetsecurity Security Lab is now warning of a new type of distribution: IT security experts have discovered that XLM macros are used in XLSB documents to distribute QakBot malware. Since both XLM macros and the XLSB document format are uncommon, these new malicious documents have a very low detection rate by current anti-virus solutions. What is QakBot? QakBot (also known as QBot, QuakBot, Pinkslipbot) has been around since ...