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Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-10-13

MONTRÉAL - On December 1, 2005, two e-mail messages were sent from a computer in Western Australia to members of two different human rights organizations. Each e-mail message carried a Microsoft Word document with a previously unknown exploit that would take control of the targeted person's computer and open up a beachhead into the group's network.

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Re: Targeted Trojan attacks on the rise 2006-11-30
Anonymous
I'm not a fan of Microsoft, and the security of their products can indeed be appalling... however, a big part of why these products are having such vulnerabilities exposed is sheer surface area. It doesn't pay to develop exploits in products that nobody knows or cares about...

If everyone in the wo...

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