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Title: Emergency Flash Player patch fixes critical flaw being exploited in the wild Post by: HCK on October 20, 2015, 03:00:15 pm Emergency Flash Player patch fixes critical flaw being exploited in the wild
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Adobe released a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player faster than it originally anticipated in response to high-profile cyberespionage attacks against governmental targets.</p><p> The latest Flash Player updates (https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-27.html) released Friday address a flaw that’s already exploited by a Russian espionage group known as Pawn Storm, as well as two other critical vulnerabilities reported privately to Adobe.</p><p> The CVE-2015-7645 vulnerability is actively exploited by the Pawn Storm group in attacks targeting several foreign affairs ministries from around the globe, security researchers from Trend Micro reported Tuesday (http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/new-adobe-flash-zero-day-used-in-pawn-storm-campaign/).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2994716/security/flash-player-emergency-patch-fixes-one-flaw-already-being-exploited-and-two-others.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Emergency Flash Player patch fixes critical flaw being exploited in the wild (http://www.macworld.com/article/2994716/security/flash-player-emergency-patch-fixes-one-flaw-already-being-exploited-and-two-others.html#tk.rss_all) |