New Delhi, Aug 16 : The number of exploits for weaknesses in the Microsoft Office suite increased, accounting for 82 percent of the number of exploits across various platforms and software including Adobe Flash, Android, Java and more in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022, the report stated on Tuesday.According to a report from Kaspersky the old versions of applications remain the most frequent target for attackers, with almost 547,000 users in total being affected by the same security holes in the past quarter.
Additionally the amount of people affected by the Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution vulnerability, previously identified in specific attacks increased eight times.
“Since this vulnerability is simple to exploit and exploit, we are expecting an increase in its use.Criminals design malicious documents and persuade their users to open them using social engineering methods,” Alexander Kolesnikov, malware analyst at Kaspersky stated in an announcement.
“The Microsoft Office application then downloads and executes a malicious program.
To ensure you are sure it is essential to install the patch from the vendor utilize security tools capable of detect vulnerability exploits and ensure that employees are informed of new cyber-attacks,” Kolesnikov added.
Kaspersky experts discovered that vulnerabilities exploited by the vulnerability, coded CVE-2021-4044, were used to target 5,000 people in Q2 8 times higher than the number of people who were targeted in the first quarter.
This zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer’s engines MSHTML was first identified in September 2021.
The engine is a component of the system that is used by Microsoft Office applications to handle web-based content.
If it is exploited, it allows remote execution of malicious software on computers of victims.
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