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ANI Exploit Tries the ‘Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers’ Shtick

ANI Exploit Tries the 'Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers' ShtickSpam promising "Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers " is linking to sites hosting the Windows...

Widespread ANI Attack Coming Out of Asia/Pacific

A large clump of sites in the Asia Pacific region are sporting embedded IFrames pointing to a site that's spreading ANI exploit code, Websense...

Windows ANI Workaround Updated as Exploit Mutates

eEye has updated its workaround for the Windows animated cursor flaw—a flaw that some are claiming is responsible for the first real remote code...

Microsoft Jumps Schedule to Patch ANI

Microsoft is jumping its regular monthly patch schedule to release a patch this Tuesday for the animated cursor attack that's been roughhousing Windows users...

ANI Zero Day Takes New Turns to the Uber-Nasty

If you're reading this with Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, don't. The Windows animated cursor zero-day attack that was coming through on IE...

You PWN It, You Own It

If you haven't heard already, you're going to have to put on your Mac hacking cap for CanSecWest Vancouver 2007, in April. The show...

ANI Exploit Tied to Hacked Super Bowl Site

The same script that planted malicious code last month on the Super Bowl site is responsible for the zero-day animated cursor file exploit on...

Worm Posing as IE Beta Download

A widespread malicious attack is posing as a convincing invitation from Microsoft to download a beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0, security company Sophos...

Indiana Man Nabbed for Selling Counterfeit Software on eBay

An Indiana man will spend 27 months in prison for selling more than $700,000 worth of counterfeit software on eBay, the Milwaukee FBI announced...

Workaround Out for Windows ANI Zero Day

eEye Digital Security's Research Team has released a workaround for the zero-day Windows animated cursor vulnerability that McAfee discovered earlier in the week. Microsoft...