The Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability that was patched with yesterday s MS10-042 bulletin was under active attack by malware miscreants. Microsoft tracked about 25,000 attempts to exploit the vulnerability. The attacks escalated significantly when the company announced the issue would be fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday. Attacks started a few weeks ago and have continued to expand and some new attack patterns have come into play, says Microsoft. The UK, in particular, was one of the regions in which we witnessed a surge in attack attempts over this past weekend.
Source: https://threatpost.com/microsoft-25000-computers-attacked-latest-windows-zero-day-071410/74208/