Viruses Attack!!! The Trojan Wants You and Only You!!!

[mandy]

On December 1, 2005, two email messages were sent from a computer in Western Australia to members of two different human rights organizations. Each email message carried a Microsoft Word document with a previously unknown exploit that would take control of the targeted person's computer and open up a beachhead into the group's network.

The attack failed, as did a second attempt to infiltrate the same human-rights groups a week later, due in no small part to an overabundance of caution on the part of email security provider MessageLabs, which initially blocked the emails based on the strangeness of the Word attachments. The attacks only targeted a single person at each organization and, after the two attempts, never repeated...

Targeted Trojan horse attacks are quickly becoming a major issue for the antivirus and computer-security industries...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/15/..._the_rise/