Tag: "metasploit"

The “Aurora” IE Exploit Used Against Google in Action

The “Aurora” IE Exploit Used Against Google in Action

The big news hit earlier this week, the attack vector that allowed bad actors presumably from China into the networks of Google, Juniper, Adobe, and some 30 other firms was an Internet Explorer zero day, a use after free vulnerability on an invalid pointer reference affecting IE 6, 7, and 8 but only used in IE 6 according to Microsoft.