Beware of PDFs – They can be dangerous
I always thought PDFs were safe to open, sadly my notion was wrong. The other day I received an email sent to my work address from Gmail account which contained no body, only a single PDF attachment – sale_50_87318984.pdf.
Now, of course, the fact there was no body and it was sent to random people around the company, sent up a red flag for me. Obviously, the perpetrator was trying to get someone to click the PDF, which, I am hoping, if all those employees have read the companies email policy and hopefully have some knowledge of internet security, no one has.…
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