Adobe reviews report of another security bug
Adobe is investigating a report by a cyber security firm that hackers exploited previously unknown bugs in its Reader and Acrobat software to launch sophisticated attacks on PCs.
FireEye, a Silicon Valley company that helps businesses fight cyber attacks, said it obtained PDF files tainted with malicious software, which can take advantage of the newly discovered bugs. It declined to identify any victims of the attacks.
A spokeswoman for Adobe said the company is investigating the report, which surfaced on Tuesday. She declined to elaborate. It has been a busy year so far for Adobe's security team. In January, the company pushed out security updates to fix vulnerabilities in Reader, Acrobat and Flash, as well as a program known as ColdFusion that is used to build websites.
