Thursday, March 30, 2006

Hackers Use BBC News as IE Attack Lure

Ryan Naraine writes on eWeek:

The ongoing zero-day attacks against users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have taken an ominous, social-engineering twist.

According to an alert issued by Websense Security Labs, in San Diego, excerpts from actual BBC News stories are being used to lure IE users to Web sites that launch drive-by downloads of bots, spyware, back doors and other Trojan downloaders.

More here.

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