INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
New reports have claimed Microsoft Office was the most commonly exploited application worldwide as of the the third quarter of this
year.Research from PreciseSecurity.com found that Microsoft Office solutions and applications were the target of exactly 72.85 percent of
cyber exploits this year according to the firm's research.However, cybercriminals also targeted web browsers with 13.47 percent of the total
number of exploits, Android (9.09 percent), Java (2.36 percent), and Adobe Flash (1.57 percent).The report also collected data on which
countries are the sources of web-based attacks to reveal that 79.16 percent of attacks originate from the United States.The other top five
countries include the Netherlands with 15.58 percent, Germany with 2.35 percent, France with 1.85 percent and Russia with 1.05 percent.Of
the vulnerabilities observed in Microsoft Office, the most common related to stack overflow errors in the Equation Editor application
Another important vulnerability that affected Microsoft's software was a zero-day issue referred to as CVE-2019-1367 which produced memory
corruption and allowed for remote code execution on the target system.Cybercriminals are constantly searching for new vulnerabilities to
exploit which is why Microsoft and many other large tech companies have invested heavily into their bug bounty programs this year
By finding vulnerabilities before they can be exploited, businesses are able to remove one of the most potent weapons in a hacker's arsenal.
