Andy Cianciotto

Over the past two days, Security Response has observed an increase in detections of W32.Ackantta.B@mm and subsequently, Trojan.Vundo .         W32.Ackantta.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that gathers email addresses from a compromised computer and spreads by copy

Security Response has seen a large spam run of what appears to be the latest in the line of Trojan.Peacomm variants. While this is nothing new, this time around the attachmentsare in the form of password-protected zip files. The recipient istricked into unzipping the attachment with the include

Microsoft has released an out-of-band advisory today for a new exploit targeting a vulnerability in the way that Microsoft Windows handles animated cursor (.ani) files. The vulnerability is caused by insufficient format validation, priorto rendering cursors, animated cursors, and icons.