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New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-use-linkedin-like-all-the-other-spammers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Windows 8 may block most malware out of the box, but there is still malware out there that thwarts Microsoft's latest and greatest. A new Trojan variant, detected as Backdoor.Makadocs and spread via RTF and Microsoft Word document marked as Trojan.Dropper, has been discovered that not only adds a clause to target Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, but also uses Google Docs as a proxy server to phone home to its Command & Control (C&C) server."

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  1. Re:spread via RTF?! by jonwil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would LOVE to meet the idiots that decided that document formats (such as Word, Excel, PDF, RTF etc) need to support full programming languages with system level access.

    Old office formats (Word Perfect, Lotus etc) got by just fine without programmability so why do modern formats need it?

    A special place in hell should be reserved for the person who decided to merge 2 of the least secure mainstream programs known to man and add support for embedding a Flash file into a PDF file.