It is amazing how well social engineering attacks will work. A malicious Excel spreadsheet sent from a trusted source by spoofing the e-mail address of that source would probably coax the average person to open it. So it is with this new vulnerability that Microsoft reports with Excel. Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability that lies within several versions of the Excel spreadsheet program, Microsoft warned late Tuesday.
The good news is that those who have installed Office Service Pack 3, which includes updates for Excel as well as other products in the office productivity suite, are not affected, Microsoft said. That service pack was released last September.
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