Microsoft Office zero-day “Follina”—it’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (It’s a bug)

Update: Please see our FAQ for the latest guidance and mitigation tips on Follina. On Monday May 30, 2022, Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 regarding the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool MSDT in Windows vulnerability. The mitigation offered by Microsoft consists of an alternative method to...

Coronavirus-Themed APT Attack Spreads Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT group is leveraging the coronavirus pandemic to infect victims with a previously unknown malware, in a recently discovered campaign that researchers call “Vicious Panda.” Researchers identified two suspicious Rich Text Format files RTF — a text file format used b...

CVE-2008-1091: Improper Control of Generation of Code

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Rich Text Format .rtf file with a malformed string that triggers a "memory calculation error" and a heap-based...

CVE-2000-0073: Undefined Security Weakness

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format RTF reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word...