scoutt
12-22-2008, 07:30 AM
(December 18, 2008)
The Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability for which Microsoft has just
released an out-of-cycle fix (see story below) is being exploited in
another way; attackers are seeding Microsoft Word documents with
malicious ActiveX controls. The embedded controls contain lines of code
that cause the host on which the controls have been downloaded to visit
a site that hosts malware. Users receive the infected Word documents
as email attachments or through maliciously manipulated websites.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123898&source=rss_topic17
The Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability for which Microsoft has just
released an out-of-cycle fix (see story below) is being exploited in
another way; attackers are seeding Microsoft Word documents with
malicious ActiveX controls. The embedded controls contain lines of code
that cause the host on which the controls have been downloaded to visit
a site that hosts malware. Users receive the infected Word documents
as email attachments or through maliciously manipulated websites.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123898&source=rss_topic17