There’s a new way of stealing data from your PC. Hackers are using Adobe Acrobat file format — commonly called PDF files — to siphon off sensitive data from your PC to China. Adobe files are considered very safe for viewing documents. So safe, that even credit card companies send their bills in this format and almost all banks use them to send online documents, statements and bills. It is this faith on Adobe files that hackers are trying to cash in on. According to Websense Security Labs, a Zbot Trojan virus is spreading rapidly through emails and the security firm has already discovered about 2,200 such mails in India. Zbot (also known as Zeus) is an information stealing virus that remains hidden in a PC (Trojan) collecting confidential data from each infected computer. The modus operandi for the virus is to trick users into opening a mail with a PDF file attached to it. Once a user clicks on the file, the PC gets infected and there is an outflow of sensitive information to the programmer of this virus somewhere in China.for further: economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Beware-PDF-in-mail-could-be-a-virus/articleshow/5814480.cms
