Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research. The flaw has been used in a series of watering hole attacks. The Department of Energy website was hacked by attackers to hijack visitors to a compromised website to deploy Poison Ivy Trojan through the execution of a drive-by download exploit The vulnerability is known to be linked to the China based group of hackers DeepPanda”]
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