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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Shadow Attacks Let Attackers Replace Content in Digitally Signed PDFs
Researchers have demonstrated a novel class of attacks that could allow a bad actor to potentially circumvent existing countermeasures and …