Security News > 2021 > June > Kaspersky: Exploits for MS Office Flaws Most Popular in Q1 2021
Exploits for vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Office suite were the most popular among cyber-attackers during the first quarter of this year, according to a new Kaspersky report.
Microsoft Office exploits accounted for more than half of the observed exploits, with CVE-2017-11882 remaining the most commonly targeted vulnerability.
MacOS users were also targeted during the first quarter of the year, with the exposure of the first piece of malware to target.
In Q1 2021, most of the attacks on Internet of Things devices targeted the Telnet protocol, with the remaining threats focused on brute-forcing SSH, Kaspersky reveals in its.
During the first three months of the year, Kaspersky's products blocked over 2 billion attacks coming from online resources and recognized as malicious roughly 634 million unique URLs.
The company's products stopped financial malware on the computers of 118,099 unique users - showing a continuous decline in the use of such threats - while ransomware attacks were registered on the machines of 91,841 unique users.
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-15 | CVE-2017-11882 | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". | 7.8 |