assuming this timestamp is correct, it seems like this particular piece of malware had managed to spread in the wild for 2 or more days before picked up by the major AV vendors. McAfee claims this variant was first discovered on the 10th, Microsoft Claims the 10th, Symantec claims the 11th, Avira had a VDF for it on the 10th, Sophos claimed to have seen it on the 8th, but says "Protection available since: ". However, the scarry thing is, after looking at the detections in virus total, and researching them on the major AV vendors pages.
INSTALL NEW FONTS IN PPT 15.38 FOR MAC .EXE
exe file was around ~8:00AM Sunday (Sept 8th) morning.
I just restored from backup, and everything seemed fine for the rest of the day, 10 minutes after posting this I get a call that they couldn't access anything again, then I KNEW.Īfter an informal forensic investigation, I found the timestamp on the offending. Well, actually, the funny thing was, ransomware was my first instinct when this incident occurred. (Which was still many gigs that took a while to restore) put it back in the same network drive, and everything is fine. I did a partial restore of the most important documents they need for today. It's interesting to note, other shares on the same server on the same volume did not seem to be affected. Has anyone seen this before? Is this some kind of ransom-ware crypto? I think thats what this might be, but most of the ransomware I've seen makes it pretty obvious you are being extorted and leaves notes. The timestamps on the documents haven't changed. Now, normally if you open a word doc in notepad, it'll be a lot of gibberish, but there will be some human readable text too, these had absolutely nothing readable. I decided to download a few documents to my machine that has a much newer copy of Office on it. But it wasn't just one computer, every computer had the same problem. Based on the description of the problem, I first thought it was an issue with Word.
So, this morning, I got an interesting call:īasically, every single Microsoft Office file. They have a drive letter that they just dump everything in, most folders have wide open permissions, gigs and gigs of documents going back to the 90's. When you're getting ready to prepare a PowerPoint presentation to a client or in-house audience, you may need to install new font software to add special characters from a typeface of digital symbols, or to match a corporate typeface used by your audience.
INSTALL NEW FONTS IN PPT 15.38 FOR MAC HOW TO
So, this morning, I got an interesting call from a client. How to Install Fonts on PowerPoint for Mac.
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