Microsoft guidance for Office zero-day vulnerability – Follina

I have written about this Microsoft Word vulnerability earlier this week: New attack using Microsoft Office documents – could you or your team recognise it? – Smart Thinking Solutions There is still not patch – but Microsoft has issued some mitigation guidance: Guidance for CVE-2022-30190 Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool Vulnerability …

Another botnet expanding it’s malicious capabilities

The EnemyBot malware had added VMware and F5 critical flaws to it’s attack vectors: EnemyBot malware adds enterprise flaws to exploit arsenal • The Register The worse thing about this malware, (other than if it infects your systems), is that the “unarmed” code is available on Github.

Zero-day threat using Microsoft Office documents – even if macros are disabled – it’s called Follina

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I have written about the usefulness and the threat that Microsoft Office document macros can pose to your cyber security. This flaw, called Follina, exploits Office functionality to retrieve an HTML file, and Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) to run some malicious code, which can lead to privilege escalation attacks. …