recent CSS vulnerability of IE 8 which is still not fixed. This means that there will be more broken webservers distributing the exploit and bigger damage to affected users.
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Monday, 8 November 2010
ZeuS uses unpatched IE exploit
The Eleonore toolkit, which is the tack vector for the ZeuS malware, got support for the
recent CSS vulnerability of IE 8 which is still not fixed. This means that there will be more broken webservers distributing the exploit and bigger damage to affected users.
recent CSS vulnerability of IE 8 which is still not fixed. This means that there will be more broken webservers distributing the exploit and bigger damage to affected users.
Monday, 1 November 2010
ZeuS Botnet under Reorganisation
Reuters reports that the author of the ZeuS botnet announced that he will stop developing and maintaining ZeuS. Probably he has sold the sources and the customer base to a competing botnet , Spy Eye. Spy Eye has been fighting hard against ZeuS, but could not overtake ZeuS.
One may safely assume that the ZeuS author will use this sabbatical to come back with something even more dangerous, as it was the case in 2007 and 2008 when he also took a break.
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