Microsoft Issues Last Round of Patch Tuesday Fixes for 2008 as Hackers Target Flaw
Microsoft issued eight bulletins as part of this month's Patch Tuesday, including six that the company ranked "critical." One of the vulnerabilities is already under attack by hackers.
Microsoft pushed out eight security bulletins as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday, including a fix for a vulnerability currently under attack.
According to the advisory, hackers have begun launching limited, targeted attacks against a vulnerability in an ActiveX control for the Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files. Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Extended Files include select ActiveX controls, libraries and tools delivered with the Visual Basic 6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) media and as an online release. The files are typically installed either by Visual Basic 6.0 IDE or Microsoft.com.
