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A new Equation Editor exploit goes commercial, as maldoc attacks using it spike

July 18, 2019 admin CVE-2018-0798, doc, Equation Editor, exploit, maldoc, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, PDF, RTF, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:00:18 +0000

Weaponized RTF documents adopt CVE-2018-0798, another Equation Editor vulnerability<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/ltjXsAajVFc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Old Phantom Crypter upends malicious document tools

February 14, 2019 admin builder, crypter, maldoc, Phantom, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:10:42 +0000

As the new year began, the makers of tools that generate the malicious documents used in social engineering spam attacks threw out the rule book and started fresh with an entirely new batch of Office exploits<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/l3gQLk92YYk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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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=””/>