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Adobe confirms zero-day exploit bypasses Adobe Reader sandbox

2013-02-14 15:41:58| InfoWorld: Top News

A recently found exploit that bypasses the sandbox anti-exploitation protection in Adobe Reader 10 and 11 is highly sophisticated and is probably part of an important cyber espionage operation, the head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said.

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Zero-day PDF exploit affects Adobe Reader 11 and earlier versions, researchers say

2013-02-13 16:46:05| InfoWorld: Top News

Researchers from security firm FireEye claim that attackers are actively using a remote code execution exploit that works against the latest versions of Adobe Reader 9, 10 and 11. "Today, we identified that a PDF zero-day [vulnerability] is being exploited in the wild, and we observed successful exploitation on the latest Adobe PDF Reader 9.5.3, 10.1.5, and 11.0.1," the FireEye researchers said late Tuesday in a blog post.

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DaVinci surveillance malware distributed via zero-day Flash Player exploit, researchers say

2013-02-12 23:17:00| InfoWorld: Top News

Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-called lawful interception program designed for law enforcement use, security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab said Tuesday.

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Adobe releases emergency Flash fixes for two zero-day bugs

2013-02-08 14:07:46| InfoWorld: Top News

Adobe on Thursday updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs. The out-of-band, or emergency, update was Flash's first of the year and the first since Adobe moved the media software to a regular update schedule last fall.

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