Zero-day in newly patched Adobe Acrobat was used in APT spotted by ESET 

 

Zero-day in newly patched Adobe Acrobat was used in APT spotted by ESET

Yesterday Adobe patched multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat, releasing two security bulletins. Information about zero-day vulnerability however appeared today only.

The vulnerability in question is a double free error CVE-2018-4990. The vulnerability exploitation was detected by ESET in March 2018.

The Adobe Acrobat bug was used along with another zero-day: privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows CVE-2018-8120. Victims of this APT campaign are not yet disclosed.

I would advise to patch you systems ASAP, buy popcorn and wait for a fancy target to be named =) As that was a very expensive attack =)

Useful links

Our trackers:

https://www.zero-day.cz/database/498/

https://www.zero-day.cz/database/496/

ESET research https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/05/15/tale-two-zero-days/

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