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Booby-trapped Word documents in the wild exploit critical Microsoft 0day
Booby-trapped Word documents in the wild exploit critical Microsoft 0day
#1
Supposedly, there is a patch coming in later today, but better safe than sorry.

"There's a new zeroday attack in the wild that's surreptitiously installing malware on fully-patched computers. It does so by exploiting a vulnerability in most or all versions of Microsoft Word."
http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/0 ... soft-0day/

http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/0 ... -millions/

Drydex: also known as Bugat and Cridex is a form of malware that specializes in stealing bank credentials via a system that utilizes macros from Microsoft Word.
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”

— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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#2
So, turn off macros and/or use LibreOffice/OpenOffice instead of Word?
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

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#3
According to the first article, it's not necessary to have macros enabled for this exploit to run.
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