[funsec] WMF 0-Day Exploit

[Fergie]

A couple of interersting F-Secure blog entries:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000752
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000753

Most importantly, the domains serving up this stuff, and one
humorous note:

[snip]

And funnily enough, according to WHOIS, domain beehappyy.biz is owned by a previous president of Soviet Union:

  Registrant Name: Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev
  Registrant Address1: Krasnaya ploshad, 1
  Registrant City: Moscow
  Registrant Postal Code: 176098
  Registrant Country: Russian Federation
  Registrant Country Code: RU

"Krasnaya ploshad" is the Red Square in Moscow...

[snip]

;-)

- ferg

ps. And, apparently it is really easy to get burned by this
exploit, so we will probably start seeing other domains/hosts
serving it up before Microsoft gets a patch out for it.


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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