Microsoft telah melepaskan kemas kini kecemasan bagi membaiki masalah tersebut.

Sekiranya anda masih menggunakan aplikasi pelayar Internet Explorer, anda disyorkan supaya segera menyemak kemas kini terbaru bagi pelayar tersebut.

Ini kerana, versi terdahulu Internet Explorer didapati mengandungi pepijat keselamatan kritikal yang boleh menyebabkan penggodam mengambil alih sepenuhnya kawalan komputer daripada penggunanya.

Isu pepijat terbaru ini ditemui oleh grup Google Threat Analysis dan sudah dimaklumkan kepada pihak Microsoft.

Microsoft di laman rasmi mereka menjelaskan isu pepijat ini seperti berikut:-

"A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights.

In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a specially crafted website that is designed to exploit the vulnerability through Internet Explorer and then convince a user to view the website, for example, by sending an email."

Versi Internet Explorer yang terjejas pula meliputi versi 9, 10 dan  11 yang terdapat di dalam sistem operasi Windows Server, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 dan Windows 10.

Sumber: The Register