Hackers Expolit 2008 Word Bug to Hijack PCs

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Hackers Expolit 2008 Word Bug to Hijack PCs

Attackers, probably based in China, are exploiting a December bug in Microsoft Word to hijack Windows PCs, Vietnamese security researchers warned Thursday.

According to Nguyen Minh Duc, manager of Hanoi-based Bach Khoa Internetwork Security's (BKIS) application security department, rigged Word documents have begun to circulate as e-mail attachments. The malformed .doc files exploit one of the eight Word flaws fixed by Microsoft in December 2008 as part of the company's biggest patch batch in five years.

The holes in Word 2000, 2003 and 2007 for Windows, and Word 2004 and 2008 for the Mac were plugged by the MS08-072 update.

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