New Zero-Day Malware Targets Microsoft Office, Lync Instant Messenger

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Malicious emails bearing booby-trapped Word documents are hitting Windows users in South Asia and the Middle East.

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[rwinches]

So, my virus software email scanner won't detect this?
And, how did you manage to use all those words and never describe what the malware does?
From DarkReading;

'The end game is that the attacker can take over the machine.'
'An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user.'
http/www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/microsoft-warns-of-zero-day-attacks-expl/240163570