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Title: Adobe patches zero-day Flash Player flaw used in targeted attacks Post by: HCK on June 24, 2015, 03:00:17 pm Adobe patches zero-day Flash Player flaw used in targeted attacks
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Adobe Systems released an emergency security update for Flash Player Tuesday to fix a critical vulnerability that has been exploited by a China-based cyberespionage group.</p><p> Over the past several weeks, a hacker group identified as APT3 by security firm FireEye has used the vulnerability to attack organizations from the aerospace, defense, construction, engineering, technology, telecommunications and transportation industries.</p><p> The hacking group targeted the companies with generic phishing emails that contained a link to a compromised server, researchers from FireEye said in a blog post (https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/06/operation-clandestine-wolf-adobe-flash-zero-day.html) Tuesday. The server used JavaScript code to profile potential victims and then served the Flash exploit to the ones meeting attackers’ criteria, the company said.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2939552/adobe-patches-zeroday-flash-player-flaw-used-in-targeted-attacks.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Adobe patches zero-day Flash Player flaw used in targeted attacks (http://www.macworld.com/article/2939552/adobe-patches-zeroday-flash-player-flaw-used-in-targeted-attacks.html#tk.rss_all) |