Adobe Patches Reader Zero Day Used in Targeted Attacks

  • 12 August 2014
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by Michael Mimoso  on August 12th, 2014
 
Adobe today released an out-of-band patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that has been leveraged in targeted attacks.
Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team director Costin Raiu is credited with reporting the vulnerability. Details were not announced, but Raiu said on the Securelist blog that exploits have been observed in a limited number of targeted attacks. Adobe said attackers have been targeting Windows machines running the Reader and Acrobat software.
“At the moment, we are not providing any details on these attacks as the investigation is still ongoing,” Raiu said. “Although these attacks are very rare, just to stay on the safe side we recommend everyone to get the update from the Adobe site as soon as possible.”
 
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