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Cloud Atlas Deploys VBCloud Malware: Over 80% of Targets Found in Russia
2024-12-27 11:10

The threat actor known as Cloud Atlas has been observed using a previously undocumented malware called VBCloud as part of its cyber attack campaigns targeting "several dozen users" in 2024. "Victims get infected via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits a vulnerability in the formula editor (CVE-2018-0802) to download and execute malware code," Kaspersky researcher Oleg


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2018-01-10 CVE-2018-0802 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Microsoft Office, Office Compatibility Pack and Word
Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability".
local
low complexity
microsoft CWE-787
7.8