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Announcing AVAR 2024
AVAR 2024, the 27th edition of AVAR’s annual conferences, will be hosted at Hotel Feathers in Chennai, India, from 4th to 6th December 2024. ‘The Battle for Cyber Supremacy’ has been chosen as the theme for the conference. AVAR’s conferences have been hosted every year since 1998 at prominent locations in the Asia-Pacific region. Cyber security professionals prioritize attending AVAR’s
Global Windows Outage: Fixing the Prevalent BSOD Problem Due To Critical System Update
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is under intense scrutiny for causing a massive worldwide IT disruption through a flawed Windows device update. This disruption has become a goldmine for threat actors, who exploit the chaos to distribute the Remcos RAT (Remote Access Trojan) to customers worldwide under the guise of a hotfix. The Attack Chain The attack involves distributing a ZIP archive
AVAR 2023 – Dubai
AVAR 2023 is the 26th edition of AVAR’s annual cyber security conferences and the first to be held in the Middle East. The UAE is a focal point for the cyber security industry in the region and hosting AVAR 2023 in Dubai, in partnership with the Cyber Security Council of the UAE, enabled AVAR to pursue its mission of catalyzing
AVAR 2022 – Singapore
AVAR 2022 was the 25th edition of AVAR’s international conferences, and returned to the physical format after the pandemic. The event was held from 1st to 2nd December 2022 at the Carlton Hotel in Singapore and also marked AVAR shifting its headquarters to Singapore. Cybersecurity Counter Punch was chosen as the theme for the conference to reflect the role that
Hackers Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware
Excel introduced Excel 4.0 Macros (XLM) feature in 1992. Since then, this style has been commonly used to abuse Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). In 2020, it became popular amongst attackers as this macro is challenging to catch in detection; thus, many cybersecurity providers struggle to defend against Excel 4 macro-based attacks. This allows attackers to explore deeper into XLM
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AVAR (Association of anti Virus Asia Researchers) was formed in June, 1998. AVAR's mission is to prevent the spread of and damage caused by malicious software, and to develop cooperative relationships among anti-malware experts in Asia. We are an independent and not-for-profit organization which is based in the Asia-Pacific region."