"New Attack Method Delivers Malware Via Mouse Hover"

Researchers have discovered a new strategy in which attackers could launch malware attacks. This technique allows a variant of the OTLARD banking Trojan, GootKit, to be downloaded via the hovering over a hyperlinked text or image within a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. This attack has been discovered by Trend Micro to be distributed as spam email consisting of malicious PowerPoint presentation files, PPS or PPSX. This article further discusses the details of this method and ways in which businesses could protect themselves from this attack. 

Dark Reading reports "New Attack Method Delivers Malware Via Mouse Hover"