Redmond yells 'CUT' on Hacking Team horror movie exploit

Another of exploits against Microsoft Windows that hit as a zero day after Hacking Team was hacked has been fixed. Trend Micro threat bod Kenney Lu says the fix for CVE-2015-2509 was among the 56 of this week's Patch Tuesday bug-splat. Hacking Team's remote code execution exploit works on Windows Vista through to 8 and works …

[BenBell]

Calm Down Everyone!!

"Redmond says that there is no indication net scum are targeting CVE-2015-2509".. We're all safe!

[Mikel]

Re: Calm Down Everyone!!

Except that commercial software that exploits it was sold as a tool to the FBI, CIA, every third world despot and the Clark County PTA?

[Anonymous Coward]

"crafted Media Center link file "

what does one of these look like file extension wise?

[Anonymous Coward]

Get a clue

So they fixed a couple security issues and still have millions of serious security issues left to fix. It will never happen.

[druck]

XP too

Don't forget that this one is in XP too, they just wont tell you about it any more.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: XP too

So... just don't use Media Center? I wonder if there are similar security bugs in Winamp, VLC, etc.

[Cincinnataroo]

Is anybody preparing an indictment for "Hacking Team"?