• DDEAUTO vulnerability evolving

    Posted on October 22, 2017 at 14:29 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Further to recent news on DDEAUTO vulnerability, this threat has, like all good malware, evolved.

    From nakedsecurity.sophos.com:

    On Friday, independent reports surfaced showing that it’s possible to run DDE attacks in Outlook using emails and calendar invites formatted using Microsoft Outlook Rich Text Format (RTF), not just by sending Office files attached to emails.

    In the original attack users had to be coaxed into opening malicious attachments. By putting the code into the email message body itself, the attack comes one step closer, meaning that the social engineering needed to talk a recipient into falling for it becomes easier.

    The good news is that whether a DDE attack comes via an attachment or directly in an email or a calendar invite, you can stop the attack easily:
    Just say no

    You can read their article here

    AdminITs might like to check out the Microsoft blog on ASR (Attack Surface Reduction), which is said to mitigate the risks – linked in the AdminIT Lounge topic “Enable Attack Surface Reduction in Win10-1709“.

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