US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good - Iranians hitting email flaw An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017. The US Cyber Command has issued an alert that hackers have been actively going after CVE-2017-11774. The flaw is a sandbox escape bug in Outlook that allows an attacker who already possesses the victim's Outlook …
My point is this information is another element in the story the US is building to start a war with Iran, as it did with Iraq 16 years ago. Depicting them as bad guys, as if the US was a lilly-white angel regarding attacks against foreign countries, even allied ones.
The US federal government is currently cultivating a paranoid Cold War mindset to sell an interventionist agenda. It might pass muster in the heartlands but where things are a little bit more diverse it sounds quite racist. The Federal government is currently about as functional as the UK government -- they're both captive to commercial interests and have absolutely no interest in furthering the welfare of their people, its just getting, retaining and using power that's important.
Yes, there is a lot of software out there that's vulnerable. Ultimately its the price we pay for allowing our world to be dominated by remote execution -- "to enhance the user experience". We have to tolerate this to monetize websites, to allow users to be tracked and generally keep the wheels of commerce greased. Currently the biggest headache is ransomware. The biggest nuisance is robocalls and the scams that they perpetuate. Iranians come far, far, down the list of problems.
maybe at some point, perhaps the near future, people will realize the INsecurity of using 'Virus Outbreak' aka 'MS Outlook' for e-mail...
Or even LESS likely, Micro-shaft produces something WITHOUT exploitable security craters built in.
'Virus Outbreak' has been one of the WORST applications for SECURITY CRATERS, *EVAR*. Why are people still using this steaming pile of excrement, again?
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