Computer security companies are scurrying to cope with the fallout from the Internet Explorer flaw that led to cyberattacks on Google and its corporate and individual customers. The zero-day attack that exploited IE is part of a lethal cocktail of malware that is keeping researchers very busy. “We’re discovering things on an up-to-the-minute basis, and we’ve seen about a dozen files dropped on infected PCs so far,” Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of research at McAfee Labs, told TechNewsWorld.
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IE's Role in the Google-China War
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 15, 2010 12:25 PMComputer security companies are scurrying to cope with the fallout from the Internet Explorer flaw that led to cyberattacks on Google and its corporate and individual customers. The zero-day attack that exploited IE is part of a lethal cocktail of malware that is keeping researchers very busy. “We’re discovering things on an up-to-the-minute basis, and we’ve seen about a dozen files dropped on infected PCs so far,” Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of research at McAfee Labs, told TechNewsWorld.