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Millions of email users were affected this week by a hacking campaign exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft’s Office suite of software applications — just days after it was controversially made public Friday by cybersecurity outfit McAfee. The news comes as FireEye, another security company that independently discovered the vulnerability last month, revealed it has also been used to help install the “lawful intercept” software known as FinFisher or FinSpy on computers used by Russian-speakers and in a campaign using LatentBot, an information-stealing and remote-access malware package associated with financially motivated cybercriminals. But on Monday evening East Coast time, the vulnerability was exploited in a massive campaign of spam email directed at millions of computer users in Australia. The email was designed to look as if it had come from a printer or scanner on the recipient’s own network. It bore a malicious attachment, known as a lure, designed to infect targeted […]

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