Microsoft Excel Infection Sequence Threat actors begin the infection sequence by distributing spam emails with malicious attachments (like in Figure 1 and Figure 2 below) in hopes that users on vulnerable versions of Microsoft Excel open these emails and download the attachments. Figure 1: Spam email example Figure 2: Spam email example To make these […]
The UK’s information commissioner has called for an immediate end to the use of excel spreadsheets to publish Freedom of Information (FOI) data. The data protection regulator issued an advisory notice yesterday to all public authorities in the wake of a hugely damaging leak at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) last month. Among other […]