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VirusTotal Reveals Most Impersonated Software in Malware Attacks

Threat actors are increasingly mimicking legitimate applications like Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player as a means to abuse trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. Other most impersonated legitimate apps by icon include 7-Zip, TeamViewer, CCleaner, Microsoft Edge, Steam, Zoom, and WhatsApp, an analysis from VirusTotal has revealed. “One […]

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Alert: Hackers Exploit Adobe Reader 0-Day Vulnerability in the Wild

Adobe has released Patch Tuesday updates for the month of May with fixes for multiple vulnerabilities spanning 12 different products, including a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader that’s actively exploited in the wild. The list of updated applications includes Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InCopy, Adobe Genuine Service, Adobe Acrobat and Reader, […]

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Password-protected PDFs are not enough to secure sensitive documents. No solutions available

Any deployment, no matter its protections, may be exposed to further hacking attacks. Ethical hacking experts have found a way to extract information contained in Portable Document Format (PDF) files encrypted or password-protected. The group of researchers at Ruhr-Bochum University in Germany published a research entitled “Breaking PDF Encryption”, which reveals two variants of a […]

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Adobe must launch a new patch to correct a critical vulnerability

After discovering that the first correction could be bypassed, the company should launch a second Adobe Reader update patch According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, Adobe has just released a second update patch to fix an Adobe Reader zero-day vulnerability, this because the first patch did […]

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New Banking Malware Steal Money From Victim’s Bank Accounts Using Weaponized Adobe Reader

Newly discovered banking malware steal money from targeted victims bank accounts that distributed via malicious Adobe Reader. A researcher discovered more than 300 unique samples which are used by 200 servers to compromise and steal money from victims bank account especially from  Brazilian credit institutions clients. This Malware’s unique capability and evasion technique trying to find […]

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Ubuntu Linux, Safari, Adobe Reader, And Edge Hacked At Pwn2Own 2017

Short Bytes: At the Trend Micro-sponsored Pwn2Own 2017 competition, the security researchers were able to hack many popular software and applications like Ubuntu, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Adobe Reader. This year’s hacking event features 11 contestant teams and 30 attempts in total. The Pwn2Own hacking competition began on March 15. It’s sponsored by the security firm […]

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