Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Not sure if this is news to anyone else, but it was to me.

Via eWeek.

[snip]

Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that 
exploit code was being peddled by Russian hacker groups for $4,000 a pop.

The first sign of an exploit was traced back to the middle of December 2005, a full two weeks before anti-virus vendors 
started noticing mysterious WMF files rigged with malicious executable code, says Alexander Gostev, a senior virus 
analyst at Kaspersky Lab.

[snip]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1918198,00.asp

- ferg


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