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Microsoft has issued patches for 61 vulnerabilities on its monthly Patch Tuesday, with two zero-days among them.

The extent to which the smartphone market is being flooded with new devices can be gauged from the fact that this week — with the economy in the toilet due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — there have been four companies announcing new wares.

A new remote access trojan named Parasite HTTP uses macros in Microsoft Word documents to spread and is modular, allowing for the addition of new capabilities.

Oh my word, two Perth students "have been named Australia National Champions for Microsoft Word and Adobe Creative Suite, respectively".

Vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash Player took second place to flaws in Microsoft products last year in a list of the most used avenues of attack by cyber criminals compiled by security firm Recorded Future.

A bitcoin-stealing phishing campaign has been launched by the international cyber crime group Lazarus, the security firm McAfee claims. It is aimed at Windows machines.

An undocumented feature in Microsoft Word allows malicious attackers to collect information about the operating system and versions of software on the computer of a prospective victim, researchers at Kaspersky Lab claim.

Microsoft Word documents containing executables are being used to attack the healthcare and education industries, with the ransomware being transmitted known as Defray.

Apple has quietly followed up a week of surprises with a massive one - an iPhone version of Microsoft Office.

Despite Adobe's quarterly update cadence, the company has again been forced to deliver an out of cycle update in the face of active exploits of two vulnerabilities. The company has given the Windows and OS X updates its highest priority rating.

Duqu discoverer CrySyS has obtained an installer for the malware. An analysis published by Symantec reveals that it exploits a zero-day vulnerability.