Tag: PDFs
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Check Point warns of PDF malware surge
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a startling discovery, Check Point Research has found that nearly 70% of all file-based email attacks worldwide now …
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Adobe introduces AI assistant to help enterprises exploit data held in PDFs
Adobe has unveiled a new artificial intelligence assistant that integrates with its widely used Acrobat PDF software, promising to help …
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From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware
Bogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to distribute a new multi-functional malware dubbed Byakugan. The starting point …
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New CHAVECLOAK Banking Trojan Targets Brazilians via Malicious PDFs
Watch out for the new CHAVECLOAK banking Trojan as it spreads its infection through SMS phishing (SMishing), phishing emails, and …
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New attack involves embedded Word files in PDFs
BleepingComputer reports that malicious Word files have been embedded into PDFs as polyglots in a new “MalDoc in PDF” attack last month …
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It’s 2022 and there are still malware-laden PDFs in emails exploiting bugs from 2017
HP’s cybersecurity folks have uncovered an email campaign that ticks all the boxes: messages with a PDF attached that embeds a Word …
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Snake Keylogger Spreads Through Malicious PDFs
While most malicious e-mail campaigns use Word documents to hide and spread malware, a recently discovered campaign uses a malicious PDF …
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Researchers find 134 flaws in the way Word, PDFs, handle scripts
Security researchers have devised a tool that detects flaws in the way apps like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat process JavaScript, and …
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Malicious PDFs Flood the Web, Lead to Password-Snarfing
The pushers behind the SolarMarker backdoor malware are flooding the web with PDFs stuffed with keywords and links that redirect to the …
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Falsifying and weaponizing certified PDFs
The Portable Document Format (PDF) file type is one of the most common file formats in use today. It’s value comes from the fact that …
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Foxit Reader Vulnerability Let Hackers Run Malicious Code via PDFs
Aleksander Nikolic, the security expert of Cisco Talos has recently detected a vulnerability that is continuously targeting the “Foxit …
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YIKES! Hackers flood the web with 100,000 pages offering malicious PDFs
Cybercriminals are resorting to search engine poisoning techniques to lure business professionals into seemingly legitimate Google sites …
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