Phishing -e -emails carrying pdf -attached files are increasing, reports of warnings
Checkpoint highlights how hackers love PDFs for customization
Social technical attacks using PDFs are also increasing
At least one of every five phishing -e emails has a .PDF attachment, says researchers who warn that the popular file format is increasingly used in social technical attacks.
A new report from Check Point Research claims that PDF-based attacks now account for 22% of all malicious email attached files, making them special with regard to companies that share large quantities of these files every day.
