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IE zero-day attack delivers malware into memory then poofs on reboot

On Friday, security researchers at FireEye identified a new IE zero-day exploit hosted on a hacked U.S. website that is being used for targeted drive-by download attacks. The malware exploiting IE is injected directly into PC memory instead of being written to disk; the campaign has been dubbed Operation Ephemeral Hydra. While the U.S.
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