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Zero-Day Treasure Hunt: Researcher Hides IE Attack on Web

Security researcher Aviv Raff has published code that would allow someone to take control of a computer running Internet Explorer. Raff informed Microsoft of the flaw on Tuesday and the software vendor has not yet patched it, Raff said. The hacker would first have to put a small amount of HTML code on a Web site and then persuade the victim to use a specific Internet Explorer feature on that site. The idea of disclosing his attack in a treasure hunt came from a local custom of playing such games during Israel’s Independence Day, which falls Thursday.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2122767/zero-day-treasure-hunt–researcher-hides-ie-attack-on-web.html

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