A Good Old Equation Editor Vulnerability Delivering Malware, (Tue, Feb 22nd)

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Here is another sample demonstrating how attackers still rely on good old vulnerabilities…  In 2017, Microsoft Office suffered from a critical vulnerability that affected its Equation Editor tool, known as CVE-2017-11882[1]. It’s a memory corruption vulnerability that leads to remote code execution, pretty bad. It was heavily exploited at this time and I was curious to find a new document spread with the same good old vulnerability.

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