Last week, Adobe warned customers that a few new exploits that target Acrobat Reader were being exploited in the wild. Keep an eye out for patches that are expected soon. The exploits are particularly nasty, as they use a new blackhat technique to escape the sandbox technology used in reader. The irony is that this sandbox was created to prevent
the impact of vulnerabilities such as these. Please warn your users to be very cautious BEFORE they open any PDF they did not ask for. Link to Adobe alert:
Here is some ammo you can send to all your users. It's a Social Engineering Red Flag document (yes, ironically it -is- a PDF) with the 22 Red Flags they need to watch out for:
the impact of vulnerabilities such as these. Please warn your users to be very cautious BEFORE they open any PDF they did not ask for. Link to Adobe alert:
Here is some ammo you can send to all your users. It's a Social Engineering Red Flag document (yes, ironically it -is- a PDF) with the 22 Red Flags they need to watch out for:
