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#1 Nvyseal

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:07 PM

A handful of Russian porn sites have become the first to take advantage of a "critical" security hole in Internet Explorer (IE), using it to drop malicious spyware onto visitors' computers.

The security flaw was first reported by researchers at anti-spyware company Sunbelt Software, who discovered malware exploiting the flaw on a Russian pornography site late on Friday.

Security monitoring service Secunia has since rated the flaw "extremely critical" alongside warnings from a number of other security organisations.

The software flaw allows malware to target the way IE processes Vector Markup Language (VML) code, which is used to display graphic information.

Although the exploits are believed to be limited to a small number of sites in Russia, experts believe targeted malware is being circulated via an exploit kit called Web Attacker, which can be bought cheaply by criminals looking to build malicious links into any type of website or spam email.

By using this toolkit, they could offload any number of trojans, worms and keystroke logging spyware onto unprotected PCs.

"Anything could be put in there. Just one simple trojan. Or a whole boatload of crap," said Alex Eckelberry, president of Sunbelt."

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#2 m.oreilly

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:16 PM

maybe this is why nitram has been "missing" for the last several days... :brewin:

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:23 PM

No all sites still working well :brewin:

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Posted 20 September 2006 - 04:39 PM

View Postnitram, on Sep 20 2006, 09:23 AM, said:

No all sites still working well :davex:
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Posted 20 September 2006 - 05:09 PM

If you have the cash Mo ill give you some secrets. :brewin:




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