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Vulnerabilities Most Exploited by Cyber Attacks

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[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, 

According to an analysis conducted by the Kaspersky Lab from Q1 of 2018, Microsoft Office applications are one of the most commonly exploited applications worldwide. A little under half of the complaints Kaspersky received related to Microsoft Office applications. Browser applications came in second with about a quarter of their complaints relating to their vulnerabilities.

Notably, applications interacting with PDFs are prone to cyber-attacks, since PDF files are one of the main file types cybercriminals target for phishing campaigns. Apps working with PDF files made up about 1 percent of the complaints in the report.

The U.S. government has been taking steps to counteract cybercriminals ahead of the midterm elections next week.

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