
Aerospace and defense contractors and manufacturing companies are facing a new malware threat disguised in standard business software documents that is aimed at stealing critical information for identity theft and extortion, according to a new report from cyber protection company FireEye [FEYE]. The new threat, known as FormBook, is being sold on hacking forums and uses activity logging software embedded in innocuous-seeming documents such as PDFs and Word documents to steal passwords and extract files.“While we cannot release specifics on…