OpenOffice user? Worried about Badbunny?

In case your RSS feeds are acting up, Badbunny is a multiplatform malware sent to Sophos that exploits a hole in OpenOffice, the open source productivity suite.

Here’s an additional viewpoint on the malware from Vinoo Thomas at McAfee Avert Labs who argues that OpenOffice users should relax.

While the malware seems nasty, it’s likely a hacker wrote it and sent it to Sophos just to show off his or her virus-writing skills.

“In all likelihood this virus will not be seen in the wild. Such proof-of-concepts are written more to show off the so-called elite skills of the author and are usually submitted to anti-virus vendors by the virus authors to get media attention,” said Thomas. “Nowadays with all the keen media interest in computer security, all it takes is to add a bell or whistle and a little proof of concept makes headlines.”