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By Xinhua on July 13 from Microsoft "MPEG-2 video 0Day loophole" Trojan-induced epidemic, after the decline in the once again focus on the outbreak last weekend. 360 Security Center monitoring data show that July 12, against the Trojans the industrial chain of one-day vulnerability "horse hung" attacks increased from one million to 10 million a sudden surge. And 200 have been the first "horse hung" regular site, respectively, 36 Governments, 41 education websites, the Government and universities has become a type of Web site vulnerability Microsoft video "disastrous."

360, according to security experts, in order to avoid plugging security vendors on weekends and at night time has always been active horse industry chain. From July 8 to 12 elements for the Microsoft MPEG-2 video 0day vulnerabilities of one-day "horse hung" successive attacks on two major ups and downs. 9 the first time less than 300 million soared to 10 times the 10 million, the second on the 11th from the more than 400 million increase to 12 times the 13.81 million. As at 15 o'clock on the 12th, the large-scale network attacks have led to a total of 12,081 websites have been "linked to Ma," "horse hung" a total of 91,578 pages, and 360 security guards have intercepted 40,216,987 cumulative users of "horse hung" attacks.

Photo caption: July 4 for Microsoft's video since the one-day vulnerability "horse hung" chart the volume of attacks on block

360 security experts further said that in the horse industry chain for the Microsoft MPEG-2 video 0day vulnerabilities of large-scale network attacks, the "injured" among the most government and educational Web site category. 200 have been the first "horse hung" regular site, types of colleges and universities accounted for 21% of sites, the Government category accounted for 18% site.

Expert analysis, as a result of pornographic sites on the Internet under low flow reduced the content of training, horse industry chain is being forced to shift through the regular site "linked to" methods to large-scale spread of Trojan horse. The credibility of these very informal sites, browser users are mainly government officials, students and the university entrance examination enrollment and other related groups, most of which are not very familiar with the computer technology of the "rookie" class users, and thus more easily "wounded."