Follina flaw being exploited by Russian hackers, info stealers

John Leonard
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Follina flaw being exploited by Russian hackers, info stealers
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Follina flaw being exploited by Russian hackers, info stealers

Reports of Ukrainian media organisations receiving emails with compromised Word docs, and AsyncRAT Trojan delivered by groups exploiting the unpatched flaw

The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has warned of threat actors exploiting the Follina vulnerability in Microsoft Office to attack media organisations in the country. On its...

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