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From: rsw@therandymon.com (RS Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: poisoned O365 docs
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:05:26 -0000 (UTC)
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Injection-Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:05:26 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: solani.org;
logging-data="17959"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org"
Cancel-Lock: sha1:QtOXkEoNyTJh/Qnmm01MzQ18fO8=
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by: RS Wood - Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:05 UTC

From the «no it's not 1998» department:
Feed: The Register
Title: Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet,
says Microsoft
Author: Iain Thomson
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:20:25 -0400
Link: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/microsoft_office_zero_day/

ActiveX and MSHTML, the gift that keeps on giving ... to intruders

In an advisory issued on Tuesday, Microsoft said some of its users were targeted
by poisoned Office documents that exploit an unpatched flaw to hijack their
Windows machines.…

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