Targeted trojan attacks on the rise

11:19 - Monday 16 October 2006 by From the Web
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: trojan, attack Category : Miscellaneous

On 1 December 2005, two e-mail messages were sent from a computer in Western Australia to members of two different human rights organizations. Each e-mail message carried a Microsoft Word document with a previously unknown exploit that would take control of the targeted person's computer and open up a beachhead into the group's network.

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