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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Attackers use undocumented MS Office feature to leak system profile data

September 18, 2017 by Shi Yu Dong 1 Comment

My article is about how can an undocumented Microsoft Office feature allows attackers to gather sensitive configuration details on targeted systems simply by tricking recipients to open a specially crafted word documents. In the article, it also mentions that researches have observed several spear phishing campaigns containing the malicious attachments that are laying the groundwork for future attacks using Microsoft products.

https://threatpost.com/attackers-use-undocumented-ms-office-feature-to-leak-system-profile-data/128011/

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  1. Ronghui Zhan says

    September 18, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    very interesting. you lead me to a bigger world. thank you.

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