Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team
Aug 20, 2017 · Information Security
How a Web‑Ad Trojan Exploits IE to Deploy Crypto Mining
Tencent's security lab uncovered a large‑scale trojan spread via pornographic web ads that exploits the CVE‑2016‑0189 IE vulnerability, installs a backdoor, and runs a Zcash mining program, while also distributing Linux malware and controlling numerous C&C servers across Chinese provinces.
CVE-2016-0189IE vulnerabilitycrypto mining
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