Cobalt malware took advantage of 17-year-old MS Office vulnerability

Hacking group Cobalt came back and took advantage of the 17-year-old security flaw in Microsoft Office. The bug exists in Microsoft Equation Editor (EQNEDT32.EXE) which allows using mathematical equations in Office documents. However, after almost two decades, Microsoft released an update to fix ...

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