Tag: Microsoft Office
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Three-Day Turnaround: How APT28 Rapidly Weaponized the Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day
The sophisticated threat actor APT28 has commenced the exploitation of a nascent Microsoft Office vulnerability almost immediately following its public disclosure. According to researchers, these incursions were initiated within a mere three-day window, primarily targeting entities across Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania. Security analysts at Zscaler have designated this campaign Operation Neusploit, which centers upon CVE-2026-21509—a…
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Office Under Siege: Microsoft Rushes Emergency Fix for Active Zero-Day
Microsoft has issued an urgent, out-of-band security update for Microsoft Office to mitigate a high-stakes zero-day vulnerability that is currently being exploited in live environments. This flaw facilitates the circumvention of native security protocols and can be weaponized through a seemingly innocuous document, triggered merely by the act of opening the file. The vulnerability, designated…
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Microsoft plans to cease bundling Microsoft Teams with its Office suite in sales offerings
The Financial Times reports that Microsoft plans to cease bundling Microsoft Teams with its Office suite in sales offerings, in order to avoid being accused of market monopoly violations by European Union regulators. According to sources, future Office suite sales packages will offer combinations featuring only services like Word and PowerPoint, as well as options…
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Microsoft no longer allows Chrome OS users to install the Android version of Office
Starting in September, Microsoft will no longer support its native Android versions of Office, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive apps on Chromebooks. Instead, Microsoft will recommend these users to use its web-based Office.com and Outlook.com applications from September 18th. Microsoft Office suites were available on Android devices as early as 2015, and regular updates since then…
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Microsoft Office suites run smoothly on Ubuntu 20.04 without WINE, remote/cloud, or GNOME on WSL
Ubuntu developer Hayden Barnes recently posted a video on Twitter to show that he is using Ubuntu 20.04 to run Microsoft Office applications. However, Hayden said that this is not using Wine, nor remote or cloud applications, nor is it using the WSL-based GNOME desktop environment, and it performs well on the i5-6300U processor that…