Internet Exlorer Exploit Used to Target Activists

From Google Security: “We’ve noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target…

All these attacks abuse a publicly-disclosed MHTML vulnerability for which an exploit was publicly posted in January 2011. Users browsing with the Internet Explorer browser are affected.” (Read more from Google here).

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