Over the past week, information regarding a serious zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2017-0199) in Microsoft Office was publically disclosed. Since learning of this flaw, Talos has been actively investigating the issue. Preliminary reports indicated that this vulnerability was actively being exploited in the wild and used to compromise hosts with Dridex, a well-known banking trojan.

On Tuesday, April 11, Microsoft released a patch for CVE-2017-0199. CVE-2017-0199 is an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office which manifests due to improper handling of Rich Text Format (RTF) files. Exploitation of this flaw has been observed in email-based attacks where adversaries bait users to open a specifically crafted document attached to the message. Given that this vulnerability continues to be actively being exploited, Talos strongly recommends all customers patch as soon as possible.
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