Pick your Poison

Interesting morning in that both M$ Word and Excel files are being distributed with malicious macros/downloaders that reach out for 983bv3.exe:

- Websense File Sandbox details for Word Downloader found here.

- Websense File Sandbox details for Excel Downloader found here.

As is the case all too frequently, if you're counting on your AV Vendor to protect you, your trust is misplaced:

What's the concern regarding this 983bv3.exe?  How about the fact that it will modify 317 Registry Entries... details found here.

In summary, malware is too sophisticated to entrust the AV Vendors with our security.  Call ESPO Systems to implement the next generation of Security Controls.