British parliament attacked using WMF exploit

[soulxtc]

<p> MessageLabs, the e-mail-filtering provider for the U.K. government, told ZDNet UK that targeted e-mails were sent to various individuals within government departments in an attempt to take control of their computers. The e-mails harbored an exploit for the Windows Meta File vulnerability. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The attack occurred over the Christmas period and came from China, said Mark Toshack, manager of antivirus operations at MessageLabs, who added that the e-mails were intercepted before they reached the government's systems. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;The attack definitely came from China--we know that because we log the IP addresses. The U.K. Government was targeted but none (of the e-mails) got through. No one was affected. They were attacked, but they (the government) didn't know about it until we told them,&quot; Toshack said.</p>

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[rocktorrentz]

Thats excellent! They have no way of knowing it came from china though because they could have just been using a chinese mail server or proxy.