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Microsoft appears to be rolling back Office Macro blocking

July 11, 2022 admin Business, Excel, macros, mark of the web, microsoft, office, vba macros, windows, Word

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:12:17 +0000

We waited three decades for macro blocking…and now it’s going away again!

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Kaspersky Security

Microsoft Office and its vulnerabilities

April 11, 2019 admin #TheSAS2019, Business, office, SAS, SAS 2019, Security Analyst Summit, SMB, vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:19:51 +0000

The Microsoft Office threat landscape, and the technologies that help us catch related zero-day exploits, were the focus of this talk at the SAS 2019 conference.

MalwareBytes Security

New Flash Player zero-day used against Russian facility

December 5, 2018 admin 0day, Adobe Flash, exploit, Flash, Flash ActiveX, Flash Player, Flash Player zero day, Malwarebytes news, office, Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 22:44:59 +0000

An APT group is using a new Flash Player zero-day that was used a lure targeting a Russian-based clinic

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Tags: 0day adobe flash exploit flash Flash ActiveX Flash Player Flash Player zero-day Office russia russian ukraine zero day

Security Sophos

Microsoft’s September patches fix a raft of serious bugs

September 19, 2018 admin 2018-09, CVE, Exploits, FragmentSmack, microsoft, October 2018, office, Patch Tuesday, SophosLabs Uncut, vulnerabilities, windows

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:00:07 +0000

Updates for Windows and Mac users resolve more than five dozen software vulnerabilities<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/HBOC9eD3Jfo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Malicious doc “builders” abandon old exploits wholesale

September 11, 2018 admin CVE-2012-0158, CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, CVE-2018-4878, document, downloader, dropper, editor, Equation, Excel, maldoc, maldocs, malware, microsoft, MSCOMCTL.OCX, office, PowerPoint, RTF, SophosLabs Uncut, weaponized, Word

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:15:26 +0000

A key piece of the malware ecosystem adopts new vulnerabilities, and scraps old exploits, in record time<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/gKMCGkmvrcQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

What you need to know for Patch Tuesday, August 2018

August 17, 2018 admin Acrobat, adobe, Flash, microsoft, office, patch, Patch Tuesday, PDF, reader, SophosLabs Uncut, Updates, vulnerabilities, Vulnerability, windows, Windows update

Credit to Author: Andrew ODonnell| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:16:44 +0000

With 23 critical vulnerabilities addressed in patches from Microsoft and Adobe, August is turning out to be a good month for updates — but don’t delay installing them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/_Fw-RIvgU1s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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New macro-less technique to distribute malware

July 2, 2018 admin deeplink, macro-less, malware, office, settingcontent-ms, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:12:47 +0000

The latest macro-less technique to distribute malware via Office documents does not involve exploits. Just a little bit of social engineering.

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Threat analysis

Tags: deeplink macro-less malware Office settingcontent-ms

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Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365

June 1, 2018 admin 365, controls, cybercrime, Exploits, Flash, macros, microsoft, office, shockwave, silverlight

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0000

If you make use of Flash or Silverlight in your day-to-day activities, you may need to have a word with IT. For everyone else, your Office 365 experience is about to become a lot more secure.

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Tags: 365 controls flash macros microsoft Office shockwave silverlight

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