04/11/2017

McAfee Warns Users of Suspicious Activities in Microsoft Office Suite

Critical office zero-day attacks detected in the wild

At McAfee, we have put significant efforts in hunting attacks such as advanced persistent threats and “zero days.” Yesterday, we observed suspicious activities from some samples. After quick but in-depth research, this morning we have confirmed these samples are exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and Office that is not yet patched.

This blog post serves as a heads-up for our customers and all Office users to protect against this zero-day attack.

The samples we have detected are organized as Word files (more specially, RTF files with “.doc” extension name). The exploit works on all Microsoft Office versions, including the latest Office 2016 running on Windows 10. The earliest attack we have seen dates to late January.

Please click here to read the complete article from McAffee - Securing Tomorrow Today.