2010 Fifa World Cup-Themed Email Attacks Carry Malicious Pdfs

[Starbuck]

Security researchers warn of an ongoing targeted email attack, which uses a 2010 FIFA World Cup-themed ruse to trick users into opening a booby-trapped PDF file. The incident targets an arbitrary code execution vulnerability that was patched in February in Adobe Reader.

 

The FIFA World Cup is the most important football (soccer of Americans) competition and arguably the most watched regular sport event in the world. The 19th edition of the event will kick off on June 11, 2010 in South Africa.

 

The recent attack, which was analyzed by security researchers from Symantec, misuses the name and intellectual property of a renowned African safari organizer called Greenlife Africa. "Greenlife have produced an extremely informative and useful PDF guide to the World Cup […]. The attacker(s) have downloaded Greenlife’s PDF document, and changed it to include malicious code," they explain.

 

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Source:

2010 FIFA World Cup-Themed Email Attacks Carry Malicious PDFs - Recently patched Adobe Reader vulnerability targeted - Softpedia

[Plastic Nev]

Thanks for that, Starbuck, and I have sent this warning on to friend in South Africa connected to the IT side of the same sort of safari company, the more wide spread the warning the better it is.

Nev.