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Rewterz penetration testing services help organizations determine if a cyber attacker can gain access to their critical assets while giving them detailed insights of the overall business impact of a cyber attack.
Before Rewterz got its start, the market was in dire need of a specialized and dedicated information security company. It was nearly impossible for businesses to find a trustworthy provider that could truly cover all of their bases. We wanted to meet this need, giving companies across the globe a chance to get ahead while knowing that their data is in good hands.
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Attackers have targeted precision companies in Italy with phishing that is difficult to spot. The final payload is a fileless trojan that harvests credentials. The campaign used a legitimate-looking Microsoft Excel spreadsheet embedded with exploit code that moves silently to infect the computer.
The cybercriminals made all efforts to craft an email the victim company would typically receive from a customer. From body to sender’s address and the document attached, everything was spot on.
The spearphishing email was sent on October 26 to individuals in the sales department of the precision company. It had attached an Excel spreadsheet containing a list of spare parts identified with real catalog codes, quantities, and shipping addresses.
Unlike the run-of-the-mill methods of infection that involve a Microsoft Office document, the cybercriminals behind this campaign did not embed malicious macro code in the Excel file, which would call for user interaction.
Instead, they opted for a stealthier variant, an exploit for a remote code execution security bug that would run automatically run code on the victim computer without user intervention as soon as the document was opened.
The vulnerability is an old one (CVE-2017-11882) in the Equation Editor component of Microsoft Office software, responsible for inserting or editing OLE objects in documents. It was fixed two years ago in Microsoft Office software but exploits are publicly available along with code to generate them.
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