Security News > 2017 > April > Beware of an Unpatched Microsoft Word 0-Day Flaw being Exploited in the Wild (The Hackers News)

2017-04-09 05:16
It's 2017, and opening a simple MS Word file could compromise your system. Security researchers are warning of a new in-the-wild attack that silently installs malware on fully-patched computers by exploiting a serious — and yet unpatched — zero-day vulnerability in all current versions of Microsoft Office on fully-patched PCs. The Microsoft Office zero-day attack, uncovered by researchers
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