Adobe's Vulnerability Fix May Have Triggered Trojan Outbreak
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published 10/31/2007
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A mere day after Adobe made available a patch
for its Reader and Acrobat software that plugs a vulnerability in how
that software is leveraged to exploit Windows XP and Internet Explorer
7, technicians at Symantec and elsewhere noticed active exploits in the
wild.
"So far we have seen a fair number of emails
containing this new Trojan in the wild," wrote Symantec engineer Hon Lau last week. "It is likely that Trojan.Pidief.A has been spammed out in targeted attacks on specific business organizations."
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