Senior Managers and their families Attacked by Malware


	Senior Managers and their families Attacked by Malware

ColoradoRight

7-2-2007 4:51 PM

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software, email, virus, management

ColoradoRight says:

A trojan horse residing inside a word document. Interesting that they are going after the family members in trying to get around corporate security issues.

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