Most of you must be downloading a lot of ebooks and reading them. Well sadly - now your PDF file can be infected via a trojan as well. Thanks to Zeus Trojan horse. http://www.m86security.com/labs/traceitem.asp?article=1301 http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Alerts/3593.aspx?cmpid=slalert This can still bypass the Adobe Acrobat and Foxit (and probably other PDF readers) security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_(trojan_horse)
Zeus is an old bot. But PDF infection has begun only recently. So, NO. It's technically not classified as OLD.
by the time the news about any new such virus or trojans is out, the damage is already done and the security fix is already integrated...
Exactly. Its classified as old, the PDF infection was a part of china's little hack in google - which some russians used to their potential via the zeus bot. Its OLD. Its 2-3 months old. Also considering most AV companies have a db against the attack - its old. NEW: When AV companies have no fix, when mass infections are still running strong.
Most of the security firms posted about this on the 14th of April which was 2 days ago. It maybe an old Bot but the PDF outbreak definitely is new. Newspapers and security audit mags are reporting these as recent as yesterday. http://www.scmagazineus.com/zeus-exploiting-pdf-launch-feature/article/168166/ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9175612/Zeus_botnet_exploits_unpatched_PDF_flaw See the dates! Also - there is no discussion whatsoever on it anywhere on the forums - so I posted it. Instead of being a Mr. Know it All - had you rather considered contributing it musta been great!
Well considering i work for multiple hosting companies as a server security engineer, yes in this field i am mr know it all. The PDF infections are old, the zeus bot is just taking advantage of it and the security firms are acknowledging that the botnet operators are using the exploit.