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Novel phishing campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security
2024-12-01 15:20

A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft's Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them to bypass security software due to their damaged state...

Novel phising campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security
2024-12-01 15:20

A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft's Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them to bypass security software due to their damaged state...

Microsoft says it's not using your Word, Excel data for AI training
2024-11-27 18:57

​Microsoft has denied claims that it uses Microsoft 365 apps (including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) to collect data to train the company's artificial intelligence (AI) models. [...]

Microsoft fixes Word bug that deleted documents when saving
2024-10-09 16:44

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing Word to delete some Windows users' documents instead of saving them. [...]

Microsoft: Word deletes some documents instead of saving them
2024-10-07 20:11

Microsoft warns that a new bug may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them. [...]

Microsoft shares temp fix for Outlook, Word crashes when typing
2024-08-15 13:55

​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. [...]

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert
2024-07-13 15:04

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.

Decoy Microsoft Word Documents Used to Deliver Nim-Based Malware
2023-12-22 12:46

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...

Konni Group Using Russian-Language Malicious Word Docs in Latest Attacks
2023-11-23 14:46

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...

MalDoc in PDFs: Hiding malicious Word docs in PDF files
2023-08-28 20:32

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.