Tag: angler
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Let’s Encrypt certificate used in malversiting
We’d better get used to a world where malicious traffic is encrypted too. According to some people, myself included, Let’s Encrypt was one of the best things that happened to the Internet in 2015. Now that, as of December, the service is in public beta, anyone can register certificates for domains they own, in a…
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Adobe to patch Flash Player zero-day next week
Patch due next week as malvertising leads to Bedep trojan downloader. As the news of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe ‘s Flash Player actively being exploited reached the security community, the company made an out-of-band patch available on its website. It now appears that this update – version 16.0.0.287 – patches another vulnerability ( CVE-2015-0310…
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Alleged Flash Player zero-day used in Angler exploit kit
Adobe ‘investigating reports’. Vulnerable browser plug-ins are one of the most important infection vectors, which is why it is so important to keep them up to date. If you don’t, visiting a website infected with an exploit kit (a toolkit that attempts to exploit a number of vulnerabilities at once) could result in malware being…