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07 December 2023

Follina Exploited by State-Sponsored Hackers

A government-aligned attacker tried using a Microsoft vulnerability to attack U.S. and E.U. Researchers have added state-sponsored hackers to the list of adversaries attempting to exploit Microsoft’s now-patched Follina vulnerability. According to researchers at Proofpoint, statesponsored hackers have attempted to abuse the Follina vulnerability in Microsoft Office, aiming an email-based exploit at U.S. and E.U. Proofpoint researchers spotted the attacks and believe the adversaries have ties to a government, which it did not identify. The malicious attachment targets the remote code execution bug CVE-2022-30190 , dubbed Follina. Read more about it: here