The russian website involved in last week's high-profile Internet attack has finally been shut down. The attack primarily involved compromising webservers with vulnerable copies of Microsoft's IIS webserver, and using known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer to download malicious code from a Russian webserver to the user's computer.
“Internet service providers and law enforcers, working together with Microsoft, identified the origination point of the attack in Russia and shut it down on Thursday,” Microsoft said in a statement released late on Saturday.
The Download.Ject program was not a virus or computer worm, Microsoft said, describing it as a “targeted manual attack by individuals or entities towards a specific server”.
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