Wormy Microsoft
Microsoft patched its security holes a little too late to stop a malicious Internet worm attack that exploited a critical vulnerability. The worm infected other computers across multiple networks by exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Windows Server service, which ultimately provided hackers a way to quickly and easily install information stealing malware on users' computers.
Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch in October -- the first one of 2008 -- repairing the error. Even still, the number of successful exploits grew significantly as hackers reverse engineered the patch and launched copious attacks in the days following the security update, Microsoft said.
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