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Asruex Malware Exploits Old vulnerabilities to Infect PDF, Word Docs

2019-08-23 17:23

A recently observed variant of the Asruex backdoor acts as an infector by targeting old vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x, Trend Micro reports. read more

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