Here at Ars, we're suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running ... Adobe Acrobat included some robust support for JavaScript in the PDF file format. That JS coding support—which ...

The flaw, first revealed at a hacker conference in Germany ... a hostile Web site that links to the bank's PDF file. Included is malicious JavaScript code that will run on the unsuspecting user's ...

Windows XP users should disable JavaScript in Reader and Acrobat ... Adobe has struggled this year to stay ahead of hackers. In March, the company quashed a PDF bug that attackers had been ...

Netskope's researchers uncover new phishing campaign Team says the campaign started in mid-2024 and has affected "thousands" Victims are promised important PDF documents in exchange for credit ...

Hackers have begun hiding malicious documents in PDF files as a means to spread malware while avoiding detection by security software. As reported by BleepingComputer, Japan’s computer emergency ...

The BlueNoroff hackers are using an unsigned application called “Internal PDF Viewer.app” to infect vulnerable Macs with the RustBucket malware. However, this internal PDF viewer app is just ...

Disabling JavaScript will not prevent this (I don’t use JavaScript in my PoC PDF), and patching Adobe Reader isn’t possible (I’m not exploiting a vulnerability, just being creative with the ...

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called ... code that is difficult for antivirus to detect. "Computer hackers have taken advantage of the acceptance of these packers ...

Windows XP users should disable JavaScript in Reader and Acrobat ... Adobe has struggled this year to stay ahead of hackers. In March, the company quashed a PDF bug that attackers had been ...

Cybersecurity researchers from Netskope Threat Labs detailed their findings, noted the target of this campaign is mainly people looking for PDF files online - whether books, documents, charts ...