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Zero-Day IE Attacks Being Used By Porn Sites |
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Sunday, 24 September 2006 |
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eSecurity researchers at Sunbelt Software have discovered an active malware attack against fully patched versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. The exploit has been seeded at several porn sites hosted in Russia and is being used to launching drive-by malware downloads that appear to be hijacking Windows machines for use in botnets. eWEEK has confirmed the flaw—and zero-day attacks—and on a fully patched version of Windows XP SP2 running IE 6.0.
There are at least three different sites hosting the malicious executables, which are being served up on a rotational basis. |
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