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Microsoft warns users about email security scam

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Safety researchers at Microsoft have issued a caution regarding an ongoing unsolicited mail wave which makes use of malicious RTF paperwork to contaminate customers’ programs with malware.

In step with the corporate, the unsolicited mail wave is particularly focused on Eu customers because the emails are despatched in quite a lot of Eu languages. The Microsoft Safety Intelligence crew defined how the marketing campaign labored, announcing:

“Within the new marketing campaign, the RTF document downloads and runs more than one scripts of various sorts (VBScript, PowerShell, PHP, others) to obtain the payload.”

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The general payload is a backdoor trojan whose command and keep watch over servers went offline round the similar time Microsoft issued its caution at the marketing campaign. 

Equation Editor vulnerability

Because the preliminary an infection vector depends upon an older Place of business vulnerability, customers will also be totally secure from this unsolicited mail marketing campaign through updating their instrument as Microsoft patched the vulnerability again in November of 2017.

The vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-11882 and is a codename for a vulnerability in an older model of the Equation Editor part incorporated with Place of business. Safety researchers from Embedi found out a worm on this older part again in 2017 that allowed hackers to execute code on a consumer’s tool when they opened a weaponized Place of business document containing a unique exploit.

As soon as a 2d Equation Editor worm was once found out in 2018, Microsoft determined to fully take away the older Equation Editor part from Place of business. Then again, as organizations and folks continuously fail or fail to remember to put in instrument updates, cybercriminals had been nonetheless ready to take advantage of the vulnerability even after the corporate launched an replace that will mitigate the problem.

In step with a record from Recorded Long term in addition to one from Kaspersky Lab, the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability was once one of the most most sensible exploited vulnerabilities of 2018 as hackers endured to prey on customers that had but to replace their instrument.

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