Tag: flash
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VB2014 preview: Ubiquitous Flash, ubiquitous exploits and ubiquitous mitigation
Chun Feng and Elia Florio look at exploits targeting domain memory opcode in Adobe Flash. In the weeks running up to VB2014 (the 24th Virus Bulletin International Conference), we are looking at some of the research that will be presented at the event. Today, we look at the paper ‘ Ubiquitous Flash, ubiquitous exploits and…
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Adobe releases emergency update for Flash Player
Zero-day exploit actively being abused. Adobe has announced it will release an update for its Flash Player on Friday 15 April, fixing a vulnerability that is currently being exploited. The vulnerability, which affects Flash Player 10.2.x on Windows , Macintosh , Linux and Solaris , can be used by attackers to take control of an…
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Patches come thick and fast in major update spree
Monthly and out-of-band issues flood admins’ to-do lists. The release of this month’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins from Microsoft , with a fairly average 10 alerts covering 34 separate vulnerabilities, is accompanied by a number of additional fixes and updates which will keep security admins busy this week. Adobe has announced plans to provide an…
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Flash exploit used to steal gaming passwords
Despite initial panic, threat no longer believed to a zero-day exploit. In the past few days, thousands of websites have indirectly been serving malicious Adobe Flash (.SWF) files. It is believed that legitimate sites have been hacked via SQL injection to include a script that causes browsers to redirect to sites hosting malicious .SWF files.…