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Beware the Bumblebee: Social Engineering with a VBA Sting Remember those clunky VBA macro-laden attachments that plagued inboxes a decade ago? Well, get ready for a blast from the past. A hacker group known as Bumblebee has recently resurfaced, and their latest campaign leverages these seemingly outdated tactics to steal your data. The Bumblebee Buzz Bumblebee's attack hinges on social engineering. They craft emails that appear to be legitimate notifications, often from OneDrive disguised as voicemail messages. These emails contain attachments – VBA macro-enabled documents. Once a user opens the attachment and enables the macros, they unwittingly grant the malware access to their system. This resurgence of VBA macros is particularly interesting because security measures have largely phased them out due to their well-known vulnerabilities. However, Bumblebee's strategy seems to be banking on the assumption that people have grown complacent about these older attack methods. How ...