| Attack follows Acrobat update |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 25 October 2007 | |
  
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According to reports, at least one of the servers involved in the attack is associated with the Russian Business Network, a group that has been linked to other major malware outbreaks. "So far we have seen a fair number of emails containing this new Trojan in the wild," said Hon Lau, senior security response manager at Symantec. "It is likely that Trojan.Pidief.A has been spammed out in targeted attacks on specific business organizations." Hon Lau and other experts are recommending that users apply Adobe's patch promptly, update their antivirus definitions, and treat incoming PDF attachments with particular caution. |
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