{"id":200,"date":"2024-04-27T04:53:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=200"},"modified":"2024-04-30T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T07:40:15","slug":"ukraine-targeted-in-cyberattack-exploiting-7-year-old-microsoft-office-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/ukraine-targeted-in-cyberattack-exploiting-7-year-old-microsoft-office-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file (&#8220;signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx&#8221;) as the starting point, with the filename implying that it may have been shared via the Signal instant messaging app.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2024\/04\/27\/ukraine-targeted-in-cyberattack-exploiting-7-year-old-microsoft-office-flaw\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/04\/ukraine-targeted-in-cyberattack.html\">Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw (thehackernews.com)<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file (&#8220;signal-2023-12-20-160512.ppsx&#8221;) as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,17],"tags":[31,9],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","category-geopolitics","category-vulnerability","tag-31","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}