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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Security Affairs

It’s a PPSX file, seemingly an outdated US Army manual for tank mine clearing blades (MCB). The researchers pointed out that the use of the “script:” prefix demonstrates the exploitation of the vulnerability CVE-2017-8570 , a bypass for CVE-2017-0199. The remote script, named “widget_iframe.617766616773726468746672726a6834.html,”

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018.