More users attacked via old Microsoft Office vulnerability in Q2, claims report

The number of exploits for vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Office suite increased, accounting for 82 percent of the total number of exploits across different platforms and software, such as Adobe Flash, Android, Java etc in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022, a report said.
According to a report by Kaspersky, old versions of applications remain the main targets for attackers, with almost 547,000 users in total being affected through corresponding vulnerabilities in the last quarter.
Moreover, the number of users affected by the Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution vulnerability, which was previously spotted in targeted attacks, skyrocketed eight times.
“Since the vulnerability is quite easy to use, we expect an increase in its exploitation. Criminals craft malicious documents and convince their victims to open them through social engineering techniques,” Alexander Kolesnikov, malware analyst at Kaspersky, said in a statement.