"Microsoft sees 'huge increase' in IE attacks" (computerworld)

[Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>]

Thousands of hacked sites, including porn URLs, exploit unpatched IE bug

December 14, 2008 (Computerworld)  Microsoft Corp. warned Saturday of a
"huge increase" in attacks exploiting a critical unpatched vulnerability in
Internet Explorer (IE) and said some originated from hacked pornography
sites.

Other researchers confirmed that attacks were increasingly coming from
compromised Web sites. 

Microsoft noted the upswing in attacks on its Malware Protection Center
blog late Saturday. "The trend for now is going upwards," said researchers
Ziv Mador and Tareq Saade on the blog. "We saw a huge increase in the
number of reports today compared to yesterday."

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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9123398
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