Hackers Target Patched Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Vulnerability
February 17, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Internet Security, Top Stories
According to security firm Trend Micro, cyber-criminals are targeting a patched flaw in IE 7 to steal data. A fix for the flaw was included in the recent round of Patch Tuesday security bulletins.
Hackers have begun actively targeting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7 that was patched earlier this month by Microsoft.
The bug cyber-criminals are looking to exploit is a remote code execution vulnerability that lies in the way Internet Explorer 7 handles errors when attempting to access deleted objects. According to Trend Micro, attackers are spamming a malicious .DOC file detected as X M L_DLOADR.A in a bid to infect unprotected users.
