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Attackers Infect Ads With Old Adobe Vulnerability

Posted by kdawson on from the old-bugs-are-the-best dept.

thethibs writes "eWeek is reporting that just as everyone is buzzing about the latest Adobe vulnerability, someone poisoned ads hosted by Ziff-Davis with an older Adobe exploit (affecting versions 8.12 and earlier, and long since patched). Z-D fixed the problem less than 24 hours after its first appearance. The interesting bit of this is that a bunch of people probably got hit with the old Trojan when they browsed to a story about the new one."

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  1. Documents are not applications by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If a "document" wants to _do_ anything, then it is not a document, and should be given the same trust as other programs. The Microsoftification of the world must stop.

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  2. Re:another good reason...... by Akzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless the malicious code was placed on any one of the authors sites or another trusted site.

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