Researchers from Sophos, the security company have said that authors of malicious software are still abusing one significant zero-day vulnerability within Adobe's Reader and Acrobat via a spam campaign that's disseminating it through the 'execution of remote code.'
The assault reportedly, involves an uninvited e-mail providing a financial report that apparently the New York-based Barclays Capital sent.
And while appearing quite crafty as well as convincing, the spam mail requests recipients to see an attached file which contains the current week's newsletter of the United States' financial sponsors associated with Barclays Capital. Thereafter, the message concludes by conveying thanks on behalf of Safwan.
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