logo

Council of Foreign Relations Hackers Also Hit US-based Turbine Maker

ID: 37ce8c26-f0dd-50c8-bd6c-eded2b8f4b51

STIX ID: report--37ce8c26-f0dd-50c8-bd6c-eded2b8f4b51

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
88/100

Date Published: 2013-01-02

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

...
...

The report describes a watering-hole campaign that leveraged a previously unknown Internet Explorer use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2012-4792) to deliver drive-by downloads via heap-spray exploits on sites including the Council on Foreign Relations and Capstone Turbine, prompting an emergency Microsoft advisory and fix.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.