Friday, February 3, 2006

Hackers hawk Windows exploit

Competing hacker groups in Russia were <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6034591.html?tag=zdnn.alert">peddling the exploit code</A> responsible for the Windows Meta File attacks last December for $4,000, according to security company Kaspersky Lab. The WMF flaw unsettled security experts after they found that the virus-writing community discovered the vulnerability before they did. A slew of Trojan programs were written to try and take advantage of the exploit. The British Parliament was attacked by hackers who tried to exploit the WMF flaw. MessageLabs, an email filtering provider for the U.K. government, said last month that targeted emails were sent to various individuals within government departments in an attempt to take control of their computers. The emails contained the exploit code.

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