Εmail attacks trying to exploit vulnerabilities in PDF files

Urgency:
Urgent (Small/Medium/Large/Urgent)

   
Summary
Dear Customer,
We have seen lately a rising amount of email attacks trying to exploit vulnerabilities in PDF files. We would like to strongly recommend our customers, to check their Policy configuration of Mimesweeper. In most particularly they must check their Anti-Virus scenarios and make sure that specific data-types are scanned for viruses, especially: PDF, .DOC, .XLS, .PPT.  

Sockstress attack tool - already protected with Netasq  

Urgency:
Large (Small/Medium/Large/Urgent)    

Summary  

Dear customer,  
Inter Engineering and Netasq would like to inform that a new hacking tool has been published on the Internet. The tool is called Sockstress tool, and it can allow a potential hacker to perform a DoS (Denial of Service) attack on servers. The idea behind the tool, is to open connections and leave them open, until the resources of the server run out, and thus bringing the server down.  

Exploit.PDF-Dropper.Gen

 
Urgency:
High

Description
Inter Engineering in cooperation with F-Secure has been notified of an active spam run that tries to exploit a PDF vulnerability.

The emails look like this: