New Adobe Zero-Day Exploit

Trend Micro threat analysts were alerted to the discovery of a zero-day exploit that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and earlier versions (CVE-2009-3459). Trend Micro detects this as TROJ_PIDIEF.UO. This .PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript, which Trend Micro detects as JS_AGENTT.DT. This JavaScript is used to execute arbitrary codes in a technique [...]

Even smart people make mistakes

Anybody want to know Trend Micro’s top secret internal strategic plans for our upcoming projects? How about our financial returns for the next quarter? Well sorry, obviously we are not going to give that sort of information out publically – we’d need to be crazy to do something like that. … On the other [...]

New Adobe PDF flaw under attack; Patch coming Tuesday

October 9th, 2009 Posted by Ryan Naraine @ 8:03 amCategories:Adobe, Anti Virus, Arbitrary Code Execution, Browsers, Complex Attacks, Data theft, Denial of Service (DoS), Exploit code, Hackers, Malware, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Research, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacksTags:Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, [...]