Microsoft Outlook 2010 SP2, Outlook 2013 SP1 and RT SP1, and Outlook 2016 allow an malicious user to execute arbitrary commands, due to how Microsoft Office handles objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Outlook Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."
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Government-backed campaign going after bug that was patched in 2017
An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.
The US Cyber Command has issued an alert that hackers have been actively going after CVE-2017-11774. The flaw is a sandbox escape bug in Outlook that allows an attacker who already possesses the victim's Outlook credentials to change the user's home page. That page, in turn, can have embedded code that downloads and executes malware when Outlook is opened.
The timing of ...
UPDATE (Jul. 3, 2019): On May 16, 2019 FireEye's Advanced Practices
team attributed the remaining "suspected APT33 activity"
(referred to as GroupB in this blog post) to APT33, operating at the
behest of the Iranian government. The malware and tradecraft in this
blog post are consistent with the June
2019 intrusion campaign targeting U.S. federal government
agencies and financial, retail, media, and education sectors – as
well as U.S.
Cyber...
Introduction
FireEye assesses APT33 may be behind a series of intrusions and attempted intrusions within the engineering industry. Public reporting indicates this activity may be related to recent destructive attacks. FireEye's Managed Defense has responded to and contained numerous intrusions that we assess are related. The actor is leveraging publicly available tools in early phases of the intrusion; however, we have observed them transition to custom implants in later stage activity in ...
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