Necurs botnet distributed over 780,000 emails in five campaigns earlier this year, all containing weaponized IQY files - the latest method for delivering malware. The volume is quite low for a botnet ...

Malspam campaigns, such as ones being distributed by Necurs, are utilizing a new attachment type that is doing a good job in bypassing antivirus and mail filters. These IQY attachments are called ...

The Necurs Botnet, DarkHydrus and other threat actors are turning to the inconspicuous files. More threat actors are pushing weaponized Excel web query (IQY) files to deliver malicious code – as seen ...

Threat actors can easily infiltrate networks because attacks evade detection by typical security protections. A new variant of the Paradise ransomware attacks rarely-targeted Microsoft Office Excel ...

Security researchers are warning of a new ransomware campaign using malicious IQY files to spread via phishing emails. IQY, or Internet Query files, are simple text files read by Excel that work to ...

A ransomware campaign has returned with a new trick to fool the unwary into compromising their network with file-encrypting malware. And it's an attack that many Windows machines won't even recognise ...

Researchers have detected an attack campaign that leverages Internet Query files (IQY) to bypass enterprise defense systems and deliver a new variant of Paradise ransomware. Paradise has been active ...