Olympic Fans May Fall for Unpatched MS Excel Vuln
XLS files specially designed to exploit a currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (identified as CVE-2008-0081) are reportedly being sent as email attachments in the wild.
The attachments, which arrive either as OLYMPIC.XLS or SCHEDULE.XLS are capable of dropping and executing Windows binary executables. This Trojan also drops a non-malicious Excel file and opens it upon [...] (via)
March 10th, 2008
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