A French aerospace industry group targeted by a cyber attack using a flaw in recent versions of Internet Explorer said on Saturday its website had not been directly attacked but that hackers had created a fake address similar to its own. U.S. researchers said Friday a defect in Microsoft Corp’s IE 10 Web browser, used to attack visitors to U.S. military veterans website, appeared to have been used earlier against French aerospace industry group GIFAS. “Our website has not been attacked,” a GIFAS spokesman said. The name of GIFAS was used to create a fake address which was very similar to the genuine one used by the group, he said.
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