Hackers Target Job Seekers Using Malicious Microsoft Word Document

From gbhackers.com

Hackers Target Job Seekers

Researchers at Cisco Talos revealed a malicious campaign that deploys Cobalt Strike beacons on compromised hosts. The attack involves a multistage and modular infection chain with fileless, malicious scripts.

This attack is a email with a malicious Microsoft Word document attachment which exploits the vulnerability tracked as (CVE-2017-0199), a remote code execution issue in Microsoft Office.

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