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Update: New Trojan Exploits Microsoft Bug
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| Tuesday, Microsoft Corporation released an emergency security update more
| than two weeks ahead of the company’s regular time of the month when update
| patches are issued, notifying of a vulnerability that could allow worms and
| trojans to run malicious codes on affected by the security hole machines.
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| The first patch released outside Microsoft’s mainstay update cycle in
| eighteen months revealed the bug was apt to render attackers to remotely take
| full control of an infected system.
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http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Update_New_Worm_Exploits_Microsoft_Bug_27467.html
Trojan targets Microsoft's emergency fix
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| There are reports emerging Friday morning of a new Trojan exploiting the
| MS08-067 RPC vulnerability in Windows that Microsoft patched with an
| emergency fix yesterday. Known as Gimmiv.A, the Trojan propagates
| automatically through networks, and also installs a number of small programs
| on compromised machines. But its most worrisome capability is a feature that
| enables Gimmiv.A to find cached passwords in a number of locations and then
| send them off to a remote server. Before sending the data, the Trojan
| encrypts the passwords with AES encryption.
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http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/27481-Trojan-targets-Microsoft-s-emergency-fix
Recent:
Microsoft RPC exploit could be a packaged deal
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| While Microsoft has labeled Thursday's emergency patch MS08-067 as "critical"
| and provided a rare out-of-cycle fix because its exploit could easily be used
| as worm on a compromised network, one security researcher doesn't think it
| will happen that way.
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| "It's likely we're going to see this packaged with some other attack." said
| Ben Greenbaum, senior research manager at Symantec. "A Web-based attack, for
| example. We're looking out for are exploits of this being bundled with
| client-side exploits or Trojans so that the worm can get past corporate
| firewalls and get behind that firewall into the internal network."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10074269-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Trojan attacks Microsoft's emergency patch vuln
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| A day after Microsoft released an emergency patch for a critical flaw that
| could allow self-replicating attacks, researchers have identified a nasty
| trojan that attempts to exploit the vulnerability.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/24/trojan_exploits_wormable_microsoft_flaw/
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