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Chinese Team Mistakenly Released Unpatched IE7 Exploit
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-11 16:27:26 548
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By Jeremy Kirk @ IDG News Service
Chinese security researchers mistakenly released the code needed to hack a PC by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 browser, potentially putting millions of computer users at risk -- but it appears some hackers already knew how to exploit the flaw.
At one point, the code was traded for as much as US$15,000 on the underground criminal markets, according to iDefense, the computer security branch of VeriSign, citing a blog post from the Chinese team.
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