Microsoft has warned of a vulnerability in PowerPoint that could enable a hacker to gain remote control of a PC.
A security advisory from the company offers advice on how to guard against the exploit, and said that attacks have already been seen in the wild.
Microsoft is investigating new reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. At this time, we are aware only of limited and targeted attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability."
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