[Sophos]Encoding malicious PDFs as XDP files to bypass anti-virus? No need to panic

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Encoding malicious PDFs as XDP files to bypass anti-virus? No need to panic

GovCertUK, the UK Government's Computer Emergency Response Team, had issued an alert warning that attackers could bypass gateway anti-virus software to infect organisations, by encoding malicious PDF files into the XDP format.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakedsecurity.sophos.com&blog=15254721&post=173174&subd=sophosnews&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/pj5mBI3LP_w" height="1" width="1"/>
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