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U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Actively Exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader Vulnerability

Oct

2023

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity flaw in Adobe Acrobat Reader to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-21608 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability has been described as a use-after-free bug that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) […]

Category Threats & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Thehackernews 0 Comments

Blackhole Exploit Kit Takes Advantage of Cypriot Financial Crisis

Mar

2013

In recent days, the European Union (EU) financial crisis has taken a dramatic turn. Cyprus, one of the EU’s smallest member states by population, announced plans to impose a one-off levy of up to 10 percent on ordinary bank deposits. Banks across the island state have been closed while the unprecedented measures are debated in […]

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PDF exploits targeted through Blackhole exploit kits.

Apr

2012

PDF exploits have been targeted by Blackhole exploit kits for some time now. The Blackhole exploit kit will deliver various malicious PDF files to a user if the victim is running a potentially vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. When these PDFs are opened through Adobe Reader, a known vulnerability is exploited which will then compromise […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Actively Exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader Vulnerability

Blackhole Exploit Kit Takes Advantage of Cypriot Financial Crisis

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