Picked this up from a reliable source in the UK. I was not sure where it should be posted. Perhaps an Administrator will move as appropriate.
Several security companies have recently detected malicious MS Word documents that are designed to exploit a vulnerability in MS Office 2004 and 2008 which can plant Trojan software.
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that unpatched versions of Microsoft Office Word handles a specially crafted Word file that includes a malformed record. An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less affected than users who operate with administrative user rights.
This problem only affects Macs which have not been properly updated with the full set of Microsoft Office Patches.
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W E B L I N K S
Alienvault:
http://labs.alienvault.com/labs/ind...-x-seen-in-the-wild-delivers-mac-control-rat/
Trend Labs:
http://blog.trendmicro.com/maliciou...political-events-as-lure-for-targeted-attack/
Microsoft Bulletin:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS09-027
Microsoft Update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969514
