Adobe Reader under attack by a click-and-get-hacked exploit that spreads through email that contains a booby-trapped PDF file that remains virtually undetected by most anti-virus programs, according to Mila Parkour, the security researcher who first alerted Adobe to the threat. The hack is very sophisticated and Adobe is working on a patch.

In the meantime the only defense is use due care in opening PDF documents. It may also make sense to use an alternate PDF viewer such as FoxIT, but it´s not yet been confirmed that that other programs aren´t vulnerable.

Be careful out there in cyberspace folks.

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