Watch Out: Malicious PDFs Could Threaten Your Security
Cybercriminals are taking advantage of your trust in a widely used file format: PDFs. According to a new report from Check Point Research, a whopping 22% of harmful email attachments are malicious PDFs. That means at least one in every five phishing emails your business receives could carry dangerous payloads hidden inside a seemingly harmless document. Why Hackers Are Turning to PDFs To Attack Businesses Hackers have long favored using files like Word documents or Excel spreadsheets with embedded malware.


