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BBC Site Used as IE Attack Lure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the reads-good-enough-to-be-true dept.

capt turnpike writes "The hits just keep coming... according to eWEEK.com, someone is using actual excerpts of BBC news stories to 'launch drive-by downloads of bots, spyware, back doors and other Trojan downloaders.' One example is a story blurb masking the download and installation of a keylogger -- with no user interaction. And it doesn't even tell you it loves you."

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  1. Re:Newsworthy? by bunratty · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gosh. I'm glad you told me this. Now I'll know better and ignore all those warnings about extremely critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer from Secunia I keep seeing.

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    What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.