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Re:Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub devel... by alphabettsy on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @09:01PM (#13992042)
It's linked in the story, but check-out the details: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2017/03/unit42-di...
Re:Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub devel... by Cpoll on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:03AM (#13995402)
> each one carried the same malicious .doc file as an attachment (SHA256: 6b9af3290723f081e090cd29113c8755696dca88f06d072dd75bf5560ca9408e). This file contained embedded macro code that executed a commonly observed PowerShell command to download and execute a file.

What versions of Word are vulnerable to this? Or is it a valid macro and technically a feature?

As I recall, Start-Process wouldn't trigger any Windows security prompt (although it might for remote-origin unsigned binaries?).

Re:Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub devel... by najajomo on Thursday March 30, 2017 @12:48AM (#13992995)
'Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub developers' only if they use Microsoft Windows as their development platform.
Re:Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub devel... by raesene6 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @10:47AM (#13995806)
For this campaign. It's reasonable to suggest that there could be similar malware affecting OSX assuming the group have a general target in mind and not something specific to windows using developers...