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Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing Word to delete some Windows users' documents instead of saving them. [...]
Microsoft warns that a new bug may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them. [...]
Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for a known issue that causes Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Word, and OneNote to unexpectedly crash while typing or spell-checking a text. [...]
Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security. From more than 100 million people hit by the staggering AT&T Snowflake storage account intrusion, to the latest marketing claims of AI coming to save our systems from attacks, we've packed a decent amount into 15 minutes - and you can replay our discussion below.
A new phishing campaign is leveraging decoy Microsoft Word documents as bait to deliver a backdoor written in the Nim programming language. "Malware written in uncommon programming languages puts...
A new phishing attack has been observed leveraging a Russian-language Microsoft Word document to deliver malware capable of harvesting sensitive information from compromised Windows hosts. The...
Japan's computer emergency response team is sharing a new 'MalDoc in PDF' attack detected in July 2023 that bypasses detection by embedding malicious Word files into PDFs. The file sampled by JPCERT is a polyglot recognized by most scanning engines and tools as a PDF, yet office applications can open it as a regular Word document. The malicious documents in this campaign are a combination of PDF and Word documents, which can be opened as either file format.
Microsoft Word documents exploiting known remote code execution flaws are being used as phishing lures to drop malware called LokiBot on compromised systems. The Word file that weaponizes CVE-2021-40444 contains an external GoFile link embedded within an XML file that leads to the download of an HTML file, which exploits Follina to download a next-stage payload, an injector module written in Visual Basic that decrypts and launches LokiBot.
Microsoft offers different Word document security solutions. Microsoft Word offers several ways to secure a document so that other people can't view or edit it.
The US International Trade Administration has admitted it promotes the sale of American-approved commercial spyware to foreign governments, and won't answer questions about it, according to US Senator Ron Wyden. Wyden, in a letter to US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, has demanded answers about the surveillance and policing tech that ITA - a US government agency - pushes to other countries.