Researchers have warned of new zero-day vulnerabilities in versions of Internet Explorer that are being actively exploited to infect computers in drive-by attacks.
Eugene Kaspersky has claimed that the Stuxnet virus – widely believed to have been built by the United States and Israel to disrupt Iran’s nuclear plans – managed to also infect the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant.
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FireEye says it has uncovered evidence that the recently-announced Microsoft zero-day vulnerability is not just being used in targeted attacks, but also has been used in wider finanically-motivated malware campaigns.