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Windows RPC hole being exploited already

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 27, 2008 2:23AM PDT

27 October 2008

A public exploit has been circulated for the recent RPC hole in Windows. When the vulnerability was publicised last Wednesday, Microsoft still said in its security bulletin that although there were targeted attacks, the actual attack code wasn't publicly available ? but the company did warn that the the hole was a potential target for worms. It now seems that this prediction has come true, as a program called "Gimmiv.A" has reportedly been sighted in the wild. Gimmiv.A infiltrates vulnerable computers and sends information back to base. Some virus scanners and intrusion detection systems already offer signatures to recognise these attacks.

More: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Windows-RPC-hole-being-exploited-already--/news/111795

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