Malware Attack Disguised as China World Expo
The coming Shanghai World Expo (1 May - 31 October 2010) has been exploited by hackers to circulate malware. The alert message was sent by the reporter's group in China.
The report tells that the mail seems to have come from the Expo news office. However, it was not sent by the Expo.
The security company 'Trend Micro' detected a harmful attachment in the scam mail as TROJ_PIDIEF.ACV. Reportedly, this .PDF file abuses a known vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. It is learnt that this particular flaw was patched in the mid of February 2010. But the attacks exploiting the same vulnerability were again reported in March 2010.
