Thursday, July 13, 2006

PowerPoint zero day

Another zero day exploit, with Powerpoint affected this time. Symantec link here

Here’s what you see if you’re unfortunate enough to open an infected Powerpoint file.

Trojan_ppdropper_b_1

(Image from Symantec Security Response)

While this may not be widespread, it’s worth noting that Andreas Marx over at AV-Test recently got involved in an industry espionage case today where a (now patched) hole in Office was used to collect and steal quite a bit of data. 

Some German media attention here

Alex Eckelberry
(And thanks to Andreas Marx)

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