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Zeus bot latches onto Windows shortcut security hole

July 27, 2010 15:21

bLNKing hell

Miscreants behind the Zeus cybercrime toolkit and other strains of malware have begun taking advantage of an unpatched shortcut handling flaws in Windows. It was first used by a sophisticated worm to target SCADA-based industrial control and power plant systems.?

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