An Office vulnerability has become one of the most popular ways of delivering malware to vulnerable computers. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-0199, was found by McAfee and FireEye employees in April of this year. Cisco and Trend Micro spotted new campaigns using this new exploit, confirming its popularity among crooks. Cisco experts say most attempts to infect users failed because if the user’s computer was patched against any of the two exploits, the infection attempt would fail. The majority of attacks targeted companies involved in the electronics manufacturing industry.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/office-exploit-gets-new-life-with-powerpoint-variation/