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Tag-Team Attack Exploits IE VML Flaw

Robert Lemos writes on SecurityFocus:

Friday's a good day for most companies. For hosting provider HostGator, however, the day kicked off a nightmare that lasted more than 24 hours.

A trickle of complaints that started the day before turned into a flood by Friday. Companies and clients complained that visitors to their Web sites were being infected with a virus. To those visitors, the Web sites appeared to be corrupted when viewed with Internet Explorer and caused antivirus software to warn of Trojan horse attacks, affected people told SecurityFocus.

For HostGator, the issue seemed to defy defensive measures. The company found rogue code on its servers and remove the programs, only to have the attack code resurface.

posted by Fergie @ 9/25/2006 03:54:00 PM