The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. […]
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Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets
Office workers in the United States lose hours each week to email triage and to searching for files spread across disconnected systems. Roughly 40 percent of US labor, about 72 million people, works primarily with information such as analysis, documents, designs, and communication. Research from the McKinsey Global Institute puts the average knowledge worker at…
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Copilot Chat: Your hub for document creation and analysis
Many years ago, Microsoft created a handy hub for its Office suite: type office.com into your browser, and you’d see a web page where you could launch the various Office apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on — or access recently used documents in those apps. This hub’s appearance changed a bit over time…
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For May, Patch Tuesday means 139 updates — but no zero-days
Microsoft this week released 139 updates affecting Windows, Office, .NET, and SQL Server (though there were no updates for Microsoft Exchange Server). Despite the absence of zero-days, the May Patch Tuesday update still requires Patch Now recommendations for Windows and Office. The combination of three unauthenticated network RCEs (Netlogon, DNS Client, and SSO Plugin for…
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Microsoft says some users can’t install Office on Windows 365 devices
Microsoft says some customers are experiencing issues downloading and installing Office on their Windows 365 devices. […]
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UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. […]
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Poor security left hackers inside water company network for nearly two years
The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company £963,900 over security failures linked to a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 633,887 people. According to the ICO, the South Staffordshire breach began in September 2020 with a phishing email that tricked an employee into opening a…
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Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI
People are adding typos, aggressively casual language and references to ‘The Office’ to stay ahead of armchair detectors.
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Weaver E-cology RCE Flaw CVE-2026-22679 Actively Exploited via Debug API
A critical security vulnerability in Weaver (Fanwei) E-cology, an enterprise office automation (OA) and collaboration platform, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability (CVE-2026-22679, CVSS score: 9.8) relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution affecting Weaver E-cology 10.0 versions prior to 20260312. The issue resides in the “/papi/esearch/data/devops/
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Weaver E-cology critical bug exploited in attacks since March
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-22679) in the Weaver E-cology office automation since mid-March to run discovery commands. […]
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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone
Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S. companies, including Gmail, Microsoft Teams, Zoom Workplace, Slack, and Notion, account for more than 12.5 billion downloads…
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25 great uses for an old Android device
Got extra smartphones sitting around your office? How about tablets? As we move multiple generations into mobile technology, more and more of us are building up collections of old, dated devices from both our work and our personal lives. And more often than not, those devices do little more than take up space and gather…
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NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control…
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Google Chat becomes an agent interface for Workspace
Google wants its Chat app to become the main interface for office workers to interact with AI agents within its Workspace suite. “We’re making Chat the centerpiece through which people talk, not just with other people, but with all their agents, whether they are in Workspace or built on our platform,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas…
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Gemini Enterprise update brings AI agents into collaborative workflows
Google has updated its Gemini Enterprise app, adding new ways for office workers to build, manage, and interact with AI agents. The company also rolled out additional tools for IT teams to govern the use of agents via the new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google first unveiled Gemini Enterprise last year, pitching it as a…
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Microsoft Teams cheat sheet: How to get started
If your organization uses Microsoft 365 (a.k.a. Office), chances are you’ve encountered Teams, at least for video meetings. But it’s capable of a lot more, providing an effective way for groups of people to collaborate on work and advance business objectives. Teams is, at its core, group chat software with videoconferencing capabilities and some interesting…
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Microsoft ends desktop detour for sensitivity labels in Office web apps
Microsoft is rolling out an update to Office for the web that removes a long-standing limitation around document protection, adding new control to browser-based apps. Specifying users in the Permissions dialog (Source: Microsoft) Users can now apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions directly in the web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The change brings…
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DavMail 6.6.0 patches a regex flaw and advances its Microsoft Graph backend
Organizations that run DavMail to bridge standard mail clients to Microsoft Exchange or Office 365 received an update this week. Version 6.6.0 addresses a code-scanning alert tied to a regex vulnerability, adjusts OAuth redirect handling to match a recent Microsoft change, and ships fixes across IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, and CardDAV subsystems. A regex replacement closes…
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FBI takedown of W3LL phishing service leads to developer arrest
The FBI Atlanta Field Office and Indonesian authorities have dismantled the “W3LL” global phishing platform, seizing infrastructure and arresting the alleged developer in what is described as the first coordinated enforcement action between the United States and Indonesia targeting a phishing kit developer. […]
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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS…
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Euro-Office billed as Europe’s sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office
A group of European technology firms has launched a new open-source office suite aimed at offering a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Euro-Office consists of four core applications — a document editor, spreadsheet program, presentation tool, and PDF editor — and is built on the open-source OnlyOffice suite. It supports Microsoft Office file formats DOCX,…
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ICO Fines UK Nuisance Call Scammers £100,000
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has handed a £100,000 fine to Birmingham-based TMAC
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UK sanctions Xinbi marketplace linked to Asian scam centers
The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned Xinbi, a Chinese-language cryptocurrency-based online marketplace that sells stolen data and satellite internet equipment to scam networks in Southeast Asia. […]
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Zoho Corporation Reinforces Commitment to Australia and New Zealand with New Office
COMPANY NEWS: New Parramatta Office Builds on Company’s Presence in Region Since 2019 and Supports Continued Growth
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OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit revenue for the regime to fund its weapons of mass…
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March Patch Tuesday: Three high severity holes in Microsoft Office
Three high severity holes in Microsoft’s Office suite headline the 78 issues listed in the March Patch Tuesday releases, which, grateful CSOs will notice, contain no surprise zero day vulnerabilities. Still, Jack Bicer, director of vulnerability research at Action1, says these Office-related flaws should be treated “with urgency.” “Productivity tools remain one of the most…
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M365 Copilot gets its own version of Claude Cowork
Microsoft has added agentic AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Copilot to improve its usefulness for office workers — including its own version of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. Microsoft’s AI assistant has, so far, failed to attract significant business demand since launching more than two years ago, at least compared to its other products. Only 3% of…
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Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: What’s the best office suite for business?
Once upon a time, Microsoft Office ruled the business world. By the late ’90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s office suite had brushed aside rivals such as WordPerfect Office and Lotus SmartSuite, and there was no competition on the horizon. Then in 2006 Google came along with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, a collaborative online word processing and…
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UK’s Data Watchdog Gets a Makeover to Match Growing Demands
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office is about to ditch single-leader model for CEO and board in a major shake-up
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Reddit fined $19.5 million for failing to protect children’s personal data
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit $19.5 million after finding that the company failed to use children’s personal information lawfully, exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content. The investigation found that Reddit did not apply an age assurance mechanism and therefore did not have a lawful basis for processing the personal information…
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UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over $19.5 million) for collecting and using the personal information of children under 13 without adequate safeguards. […]
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Romanian Hacker Extradited to US Admits Hacking Oregon State Network
Catalin Dragomir admits to hacking an Oregon government office and selling network access. Read more on the $250k fraud case and his 2026 sentencing.
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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-21510 Microsoft Windows Shell Protection Mechanism Failure…
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Senegal shuts National ID office after ransomware attack
Senegal closed its national ID card office after a ransomware cyberattack disrupted ID, passport, and biometric services. Senegal confirmed a cyberattack on the Directorate of File Automation, the government office that manages national ID cards, passports, and biometric data. After ransomware claims surfaced, authorities temporarily closed the office to contain the incident. The agency warned…
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German Agencies Warn of Signal Phishing Targeting Politicians, Military, Journalists
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (aka Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV) and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have issued a joint advisory warning of a malicious cyber campaign undertaken by a likely state-sponsored threat actor that involves carrying out phishing attacks over the Signal messaging app. “The focus is on…
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DHS privacy probe will focus on biometric tracking by ICE, OBIM
The Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog office has launched an audit of the agency’s privacy practices amid allegations that DHS and its components have used facial recognition tools and other technologies to collect data broadly and violate civil liberties. The audit, according to a Feb. 5 letter from DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari and published…
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DHS privacy probe will focus on biometric tracking by ICE, OBIM
The Department of Homeland Security’s watchdog office has launched an audit of the agency’s privacy practices amid allegations that DHS and its components have used facial recognition tools and other technologies to collect data broadly and violate civil liberties. The audit, according to a Feb. 5 letter from DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari and published…
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Q&A: How AI could transform corporate meetings — for better or worse
Rebecca Hinds has studied office meetings and collaboration efforts for more than 15 years and most recently she’s seen how AI can make corporate get-togethers better — or worsen existing problems. In a study commissioned by Read.AI, Hinds found that AI, when correctly implemented, can encourage more participation by women and lower-level employees. At the…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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UAC-0001 (APT28) Attack Detection: russia-Backed Actor Actively Exploits CVE-2026-21509 Targeting Ukraine and the EU
Right after Microsoft disclosed an actively exploited Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509) on January 26, 2026, CERT-UA reported UAC-0001 (APT28) leveraging the vulnerability in the wild. The russia-backed threat actor targeted organizations in Ukraine and the EU with malicious Office documents, and metadata shows one sample was created on January 27 at 07:43 UTC, illustrating the rapid…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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CVE-2025-15467: OpenSSL Vulnerability Leads to Denial-of-Service, Remote Code Execution
Just as organizations were working to patch the Microsoft Office zero-day (CVE-2026-21509), the cybersecurity world is confronted with another serious threat. OpenSSL disclosed a high-severity stack buffer overflow issue that can trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and, under specific circumstances, enable remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2025-15467, the vulnerability was promptly patched by the vendor…
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Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in active exploitation
Categories: Threat Research Tags: Microsoft Office, vulnerability, advisory
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Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in active exploitation
Categories: Threat Research Tags: Microsoft Office, vulnerability, advisory
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Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in active exploitation
Categories: Threat Research Tags: Microsoft Office, vulnerability, advisory
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Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in active exploitation
Categories: Threat Research Tags: Microsoft Office, vulnerability, advisory
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Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in active exploitation
Categories: Threat Research Tags: Microsoft Office, vulnerability, advisory