« The new era of macro-delivered infections poses challenges that didn't exist in the late 1990s. Back then, getting targets to open a poisoned Office document was usually enough to compromise their computer. Now that macros are disabled by default, the attacker has to create a ruse that convinces the mark to enable macros. A favorite ploy is to present a document with blurred, obscured, or misformed text, along with the promise that allowing a macro to run will cause that document to be displayed correctly. Judging from the success of Dridex and Locky, it appears the ruse works well. »