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WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000

tero1176 writes "Eweek has a story with information from Kaspersky showing that exploit code used in the WMF malware attack was being peddled on underground sites by rival Russian hacker groups for $4,000 in early December. The first sign of an exploit was traced back to the December 1, 2005, a full month before anti-virus vendors started noticing mysterious WMF files rigged with malicious executable code. It serves as more proof that the market for malware is well and truly alive."

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  1. Re:Bad Deal by dekemoose · · Score: 0, Troll

    Either that, or like the Y2K crisis it was never that big of a deal to begin with.