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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0118 Windows ANI attacks still on the rise:

Although Microsoft patched the animated cursor bug in Windows a week ago, it has not stopped attackers from boosting the number of web sites serving exploits, or tweaking exploits to make them more efficient. As of Tuesday, security firm Websense reports there were over 2,000 web sites either purposefully malicious or compromised by criminals that are hosting exploits against the ANI file bug in Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and VISTA. Most of those sites are related to one of two major attacker groups. The first, out of China, is widely believed to be the first to use exploits, which were detected about a week before Microsoft released the emergency patch. A second group from Eastern Europe is behind the bulk of the rest.

(ComputerWorld 10APR07)

Last Modified: Saturday, 14-Apr-2007 09:21:05 EDT