Microsoft investigated. And so did other major security organizations. The MIT Technology Review reported. “Google runs some of the most venerated cybersecurity operations on the planet: its Project Zero team, for example, finds powerful undiscovered security vulnerabilities, while its Threat Analysis Group directly counters hacking backed by governments, including North Korea, China, and Russia.”
Older, sometimes retired Microsoft technology has the greatest potential to have a Zero-Day flaw potential. And in June a patch was created to address six zero-day security holes.
Retired Microsoft support for Microsoft Office 365 services and apps IE11 had issues. And the Print Nightmare vulnerability was present in all supported versions of Windows.
Office documents at risk
The security update describes the current threat. “Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability by using specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents. An attacker could craft a malicious ActiveX control to be used by a Microsoft Office document that hosts the browser rendering engine.”
