A newly released report shows that based on more than a trillion Web requests processed in 2009, the use of malicious PDF files exploiting flaws in Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat grew to 80% of all exploits the company encountered throughout the year. Hundreds of U.S. organizations on Thursday received emails purporting to come from the Democratic National Committee, in a new politically charged Emotet spear-phishing attack. Read the full article in this week’s edition of ZDNet’s Cybersecurity Week.
Source: https://threatpost.com/malware-infested-pdfs-ruled-2009-exploits-021610/73541/