Mysterious New Attack Affects Microsoft Web Servers and Browsers

A mysterious attack took security experts by surprise last week when it was found that well-known and popular web sites were propagating malicious code which planted a Trojan program on users computers and stole confidential and financial information. The attack exploits a vulnerability in Internet Information Server 5.0 and two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer to accomplish the infection. This particular threat has been cut off, but the vulnerabilities still exist and these same attackers or copycat attackers could devise a new attack using them. For more information about this attack read Scob Trojan Steals Credit Card and Financial Data