The ongoing zero-day attacks used against an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability have targeted users of IE 6, an older version of the browser that doesn't contain the latest security features, Microsoft said in an update to customers on Sunday.
"Based on a rigorous analysis of multiple sources, we are not aware of any successful attacks against IE7 and IE8 at this time," said George Stathakopoulos, general manager of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Security organization. "We are not seeing any widespread attacks by any means and thus far we are not seeing attacks focused on consumers."
Search engine giant Google announced last week that it and other Silicon Valley technology firms were targeted in a string of sophisticated attacks. The attacks, believed to be carried out by Chinese computer hackers, use savvy social engineering techniques. The hackers send carefully worded messages tricking victims into clicking on links to attack websites or opening attachments containing malware. Adobe Systems Inc. and Juniper Networks Inc. have also publicly acknowledged they too had been targeted by similar attacks.
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