Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a new zero-day vulnerability haunting Adobe’s widely deployed PDF Reader software. In a brief note posted to its PSIRT blog, Adobe confirmed it was investigating the issue, which affects Adobe Reader 9.1 and 8.1.4. “We are currently investigating, and will have an update once we get more [...]
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Opportunistic scammers and spammers are actively exploiting the swine flu buzz across the web by spamvertising links to pharmaceutical scams, and bogus ‘Swine Flu Survival Guides’ using search engine optimization of typosquatted domains related to the outbreak. The event-based social engineering campaign is similar to the recent fake ‘Conficker infection alerts‘, the bogus Conficker [...] After the World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus, Spammers quickly used this event for their spam campaigns. Early this morning, we have seen spam samples using Swine flu worldwide! or Swine flu outbreak! as their email subject. Spammers are using this social engineering technique because having [...] Writing in the latest issue of Virus Bulletin (registration required), two Symantec researchers report what they believe is the first evidence of a major botnet consisting of compromised Macs. However other experts aren’t so sure of the increased threat to Mac users. Read entire article This week on the PC World Podcast, editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Ed Albro, and Melissa Perenson discuss and debate the emergence of malware for Macs. Sure, you have to download a pirated copy of iWork to get infected, but could this be a harbinger of worse threats for Mac users? Read entire article [...] |
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