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		beagle3 on Sept 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores e... Indeed, they are not heavy excel users. Which is sort of the point: the need for targeted attacks greatly reduces and segments the addressable “market” for the bad guys.

auslander on Sept 6, 2019 [–]

Nah. Point stands, attack can survive the restore inside Office docs because macros are generally allowed.

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