{"id":2608,"date":"2017-04-11T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2017-04-11T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T11:50:54","slug":"warning-dridex-botnet-addresses-word-zero-day-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/04\/11\/warning-dridex-botnet-addresses-word-zero-day-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Dridex botnet addresses Word zero day vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">User of Microsoft Word should be rather careful, because there is a zero day vulnerability within Microsoft Word. Now Dridex botnet sends millions of spam e-mails to users, containing malware attachments, addressing this Microsoft Word zero day exploit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl-vg03.met.vgwort.de\/na\/a036548156f841bca55d24185b548ecc\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">Two days ago, a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been reported. Not a massive malware campaign from Dridex botnet has been observed. The botnet sends millions of spam mails containing a Word attachment, that addresses this zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Word. <\/p>\n<p>Dridex is known for distributing banking trojans. Proofpoint has published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proofpoint.com\/us\/threat-insight\/post\/dridex-campaigns-millions-recipients-unpatched-microsoft-zero-day\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post<\/a> with details about the Dridex malware campaign. Currently it seems, that Microsoft is closing the zero day vulnerability in Microsoft Word today (04\/11\/2017). My suggestion: Be careful to open Word documents obtained via e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>User of Microsoft Word should be rather careful, because there is a zero day vulnerability within Microsoft Word. Now Dridex botnet sends millions of spam e-mails to users, containing malware attachments, addressing this Microsoft Word zero day exploit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,580],"tags":[372,756,69,86,757],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office","category-security","tag-botnet","tag-dridex","tag-security","tag-vulnerability","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}