The claim is that unknown, unpatched faults have been used in this hack. (One of them is enough.)
However, it only requires that the victim hasn't installed the latest patches for the Reader.
(Since usually this obliges them to reboot the PC, they may hesitate.)
I've seen office computers still using Adobe Reader 8. That's pretty dumb. It isn't even supported any more. The latest bugs will -never- be fixed on version 8.
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"Alleged' zero day exploits
The claim is that unknown, unpatched faults have been used in this hack. (One of them is enough.)
However, it only requires that the victim hasn't installed the latest patches for the Reader.
(Since usually this obliges them to reboot the PC, they may hesitate.)
I've seen office computers still using Adobe Reader 8. That's pretty dumb. It isn't even supported any more. The latest bugs will -never- be fixed on version 8.