Have You Installed The uWarrior Trojan Horse By Mistake? Here’s How To Find Out

Another day, another Microsoft Office vulnerability so big that cyber-criminals can drive a truck through it. This one is called uWarrior (the u standing for Utility), and it is a Trojan horse virus which connects your computer to a botnet of other infected computers. How does it try to get through your front door? By hiding itself in an infected Microsoft Office document. The details of the malware are long and technical, but the short version is that Palo Alto Networks is calling the code “new and complex” and “weaponized”. That doesn’t sound good. Despite Microsoft having issued a patch for this hole...

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