CERT warns Operation SnowMan hackers are unstoppable

From	cykros@devio.us
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	CERT warns Operation SnowMan hackers are unstoppable
Date	2014-02-18 20:01 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<le0e6p$9ra$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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From the "just stop using IE" department: About a week ago, the Operation
SnowMan campaign was discovered, when FireEye researchers noticed hackers
trying to infiltrate VFW.org.  The attack relied on vulnerabilities in 
Microsoft's XMLDOM ActiveX control, allowing code to run in Internet 
Explorer without prompting the user, offering up otherwise private 
information regarding the local filesystem and internal network to the
operators of a malicious webhost.  Microsoft is aware of the problem,
but as of yet, no patch has been released.

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2329500/us-cert-warns-operation-snowman-hackers-are-unstoppable

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CERT warns Operation SnowMan hackers are unstoppable cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-18 20:01 +0000
  Re: CERT warns Operation SnowMan hackers are unstoppable Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-18 16:58 -0800
  Re: CERT warns Operation SnowMan hackers are unstoppable wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 23:00 +0000
  Re: CERT warns Operation SnowMan hackers are unstoppable Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-19 09:59 -0500

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