Peaches Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 New in-the-wild attack targets fully-patched Adobe Reader Locked and loaded By Dan Goodin in San Francisco Posted in Security, 20th February 2009 01:59 GMT Security watchers are warning of a serious unpatched vulnerability in Adobe's Reader program that's actively being exploited to install malware on the PCs of unsuspecting users. The vulnerability has been confirmed in versions 8.1.3 and 9.0.0 of Adobe Reader running on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and is presumed to work on other versions of Windows as well, according to this advisory from Shadowserver. Adobe for machines running Linux and Apple's OS X were not tested, but may also be vulnerable, Shadowserver's Steven Adair said. There are multiple variants of the exploit that are actively circulating, one of which installs a remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT. "Right now we believe these files are only being used in a smaller set of targeted attacks," Shadowserver's advisory read. "However, these types of attacks are frequently the most damaging and it is only a matter of time before this exploit ends up in every exploit pack on the internet." The Register for full story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/20/ad...reader_exploit/ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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