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The Internet Storm Center has reported a mass e-mail currently spreading throughout Australia in particular. The e-mail is designed to lure recipients to a web page that exploits loopholes in browsers. What is interesting about it is that the masked JavaScript code on the web page contains a browser switch which slips Mozilla/Firefox users a loophole exploit tailored to older versions of the browsers. What this then does in detail cannot be gathered from the advisory; experience indicates, however, that such pages frequently install spy- and/or adware without the user's consent (see also Schädlingen auf der Spur [Tracking down Vermin] at heise Security).
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