Post Updated 9/30/2014

Several months ago, the Internet was put to a halt when the Heartbleed vulnerability was disclosed. Webservers, devices, and essentially anything running SSL were affected; as a result, attackers were able to collect passwords, free of charge.

With Heartbleed, the exploit made a splash and many attackers started to use the vulnerability. One of the more high-profile attacks of Heartbleed was the CHS attack, where the attackers siphoned 4.5 million patient records by attacking a Juniper device, then hopping onto their VPN.

So how can something be bigger than Heartbleed? I’m glad you asked.

On Friday, several of our users received phishing emails that contained PDF attachments, and reported these emails through Reporter. The PDF attachment is a slight deviation from the typical zip-with-exe or zip-with-scr; however, it’s still delivering malware to the user.