InkySquid State Actor Exploiting Known IE Bugs

The InkySquid advanced persistent threat APT group, which researchers have linked to the North Korean government, was caught launching watering hole attacks against a South Korean newspaper using known Internet Explorer vulnerabilities. New analysis from Volexity reported its team of researchers...

Microsoft Patches Critical IE Vulnerabilities

Internet Explorer continues to dominate Microsoft’s 2013 security updates. Among the 12 bulletins and 57 vulnerabilities patched in today’s release was a cumulative update for the maligned browser and another fix for a bug being exploited in the wild. Last month, an out-of-band fix for IE 6-8...

Report: Malvertising Campaign Thrives on Dynamic DNS

A malvertising campaign that’s lasted almost half a year is staying alive thanks to infected web advertisements being circulated by otherwise clean ad networks. The campaign, now in its fifth month, relies on the Dynamic Domain Name System DDNS to keep it from being caught according to a report...

ie5-msn.exec.txt

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CEF2E6A38C7BDB5B012ADFB8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Georgi Guninski security advisory 18, 2000 IE 5.5/5.x for Win98 may execute arbitrary files that can be accessed thru Microsoft Networking...