Tag: poisonivy
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Internet Explorer zero-day used in the wild
Dropped PoisonIvy trojan linked to ‘Nitro’ attacks. Security researcher Eric Romang has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is currently being used in the wild by the ‘ Nitro ‘ gang. The attack, which is probably used in a drive-by download attack, starts with an HTML file that does some preparatory work…
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‘Nitro attacks’ continue
PoisonIvy trojan sent attached to email warning about the same trojan. Researchers at Symantec report that the ‘ Nitro attacks ‘, which target a number of large companies, many of which are active in the chemical industry, are continuing, using the same methods as before. In the most recent part of this attack, employees of…