Sophos has announced the discovery of a new multiplatform worm that attempts to download and display an indecent JPEG image of a man wearing a bunny suit performing a sexual act in woodland. Badbunny-A is a macro worm for open source office suite OpenOffice/StarBasic, that drops scripts in several other languages. It first infects computer users when they open an OpenOffice Draw file called badbunny.odg. . A macro within the file performs different functions depending on whether the user is running Windows, MacOS or Linux - these can include executing other self-replicating JavaScript and Perl viruses. The worm also downloads and displays an illicit image of a scantily clad woman with a man dressed as a rabbit, irrespective of the operating system being used. The link for this article located at net-security.org is no longer available. . An emerging macro virus affects LibreOffice users, disseminating across various systems and executing harmful operations on compromised machines.. OpenOffice Malware, Macro Worm, Cross-Platform Threat, Threat Analysis. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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