Exclusive Toolkits for Exploiting PDF VulnerabilitiesUS-CERT on September 25, 2008 warned that new toolkits attacking vulnerabilities in Adobe's PDF-reading application are making the rounds on the net, as reported by InformationWeek on September 26, 2008. As per the Anti-Malware Research Labs of Secure Computing, the Web-based exploit toolkit is called "PDF Xploit Pack." Besides, the new malevolent attack kit targets only PDFs and there is no other attack code to leverage its vulnerabilities, according to a Secure Computing blog post, as reported by InformationWeek on September 26, 2008. Moreover, standard functions such as caching users who have already been infected are deployed with this exploit kit onto the server-side. Every time a malevolent exploit for PDF is installed, the victim's IP address is kept i... » SPAMfighter News - 10/4/2008 |    |
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