Attackers Exploiting New Acrobat/Reader Flaw
Summary: Adobe warned that a previously unknown critical vulnerability exists in Acrobat and Reader versions 9.3.4 and earlier, and that the flaw is being actively exploited in the wild. An evil PDF leveraging the exploit was detected by only about 25 percent of anti-virus programs in a Virustotal scan, and Adobe said it was still evaluating the schedule for an update.
What's compelling: A malicious PDF that three out of four anti-virus engines miss, against a reader installed across the enterprise, leaves detection and patching timelines as the only real controls until Adobe ships a fix.
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