The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has surfaced.
…The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has surfaced.
Starting late Wednesday, researchers at antivirus vendor Symantec’s Security Response group began spotting dozens of Web sites that contain the Internet Explorer attack, which works reliably on the IE 6 browser, running on Windows XP. The attack installs a Trojan horse program that is able to bypass some security products and then give hackers access to the system, said Joshua Talbot, a security intelligence manager with Symantec.
Once it has infected a PC, the Trojan sends a notification e-mail to the attackers, using a U.S.-based, free e-mail service that Symantec declined to name.
As of midday Thursday, Symantec had spotted hundreds of Web sites that hosted the attack code, typically on free Web-hosting services or domains that the attackers had registered themselves.
The IE flaw being leveraged in these attacks was also used to hack into Google’s corporate network last December. It has…
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