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The number of online attacks aimed at users at government agencies, government offices and businesses through Microsoft Office attachments is growing alarmingly fast, Message Labs warns.

According to USA Today, as long as the user clicks on the malicious attachment, the hacker will gain full control of the computer without the victim's knowledge. The most targeted target is federal offices and military organizations.

Source: Infoworld Meanwhile, security firm MessageLabs said it has recorded a series of Microsoft Office attacks since November. " Made mainly from PC located in Taiwan and China ".

If in the beginning of 2006, there were only 1 or 2 cases a week, in March alone, MessageLabs had detected a total of 716 emails containing a single Office file. They are sent to 216 different business and administrative addresses.

" The effectiveness of these attacks is not bad at all. The level of penetration is quite deep and wide, " said Alan Paller, research director of the SANS Institute. The reason is that hackers have spent time trimming and adjusting for attacks that are very focused.

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