Old Microsoft Office bug leveraged to compromise Ukraine

Ukraine had its systems subjected to attacks involving the exploitation of an almost seven-year-old Microsoft Office remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8570, to facilitate Cobalt Strike deployment late last year, reports The Hacker News.

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