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Multiple update patches are coming Sysadmins will work overtime over the next holidays. According to digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the next update patch set to be launched by Microsoft includes fixes for nine critical vulnerabilities, including the repair of zero-day vulnerability. In addition to the 39 errors reported by […]
APT group widely exploiting the new Adobe flash 0day vulnerability via MS word document and the vulnerability allows attackers to execute the malicious flash object into victims machine. Attackers mainly targeting Russian state healthcare clinic through the crafted document that contains several pages in order to forge employee to open it and exploiting this Flash 0day vulnerability. Distributing […]
A class action lawsuit has been filed by Dave Cooper, a freelance videographer, against Adobe for a bug in its video-editing software Premiere Pro that deleted years of his work within no time. Cooper software watched in horror as his important videos and clips got permanently deleted. In the lawsuit, Cooper has alleged that the […]
Adobe Flash is known to be a minefield of vulnerabilities and notorious actors exploit the same from time-to-time. Using fake Adobe Flash update popup on websites is another attack vector often used. Along the similar lines, a recent type of fake Flash update has been uncovered by a security researcher of Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 […]
The IT security researchers at Palo Alto Networks has identified that a fake Flash updater is circulating the web and fooling computer users by sneakily installing cryptocurrency mining bot XMRig. In the past few months, researchers have identified 113 fake updaters installing cryptomining malware on targeted devices. The notorious updater is actively attacking computers since August […]
A researcher discovered new double Zero-day exploit that affected Adobe Acrobat, Reader and older Windows 7 platforms, Windows Server 2008. This critical Zero-Day exploit discovered during the analysis conducted by Microsoft against the malicious PDF file that discovered by ESET researcher. The malicious PDF initially reported to Microsoft as a potential exploit for an unknown Windows kernel […]
Malicious hackers and scammers have always come up with complex yet innovative techniques to take control of users’ devices and access their personal sensitive data. One such method involves tech support scams targeting unsuspected users in the name of fixing issues in their computers which never exist in the first place. In one such scam, users in Australia were recently […]
If you’re still among the netizens who use Flash Player, here is important news for you. In a security advisory published on Thursday, it’s daddy Adobe disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability that exists in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions. Adobe said that the vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) is being exploited in the wild to […]
Adobe’s latest security update has swatted a total of 67 bugs, some of them critical, in Adobe Flash, Acrobat, and Reader. On Tuesday, the software provider released a security advisory detailing a huge amount of vulnerabilities which have now been fixed in the latest patch round. Adobe Flash Player, Photoshop CC, Connect, Acrobat and Reader, […]
A serious flaw has been identified in Adobe Flash Player, which can deliver FinFisher spyware, according to security experts. Adobe systems already issued a warning note about the newly identified flaw, which can allow execution of a remote code. The flaw was identified by security firm Kaspersky Lab after the company noticed that the Flash […]
Adobe suffered a lot on Friday when its Private PGP keys were inadvertently published on its Product Incident Security Response Team(Blog). A pair of Public and Private keys were published together, Keys could either decrypt messages sent to Adobe Product Incident Security Response Team(PSIRT). Researcher Juho Nurminen who works for Finnish security company 2NS (Second Nature […]
Adobe Flash has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and it won’t be an overstatement that Flash Player is software that we love to hate. It has been receiving backlash from internet users for being resource sensitive and incompatible with smartphones apart from being highly insecure. Now Adobe has announced plans […]
Earlier today, Adobe has released security patches for several of its applications, including Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Campaign, Adobe Photoshop CC, the Creative Cloud Desktop Application, and Adobe Acrobat and Reader. While all the Adobe security bulletins released today include important patches, the ones affecting Flash, Acrobat/Reader, and Photoshop, are worrisome, mainly due to the […]
Did you notice the Google Chrome Extension for Adobe Acrobat when you opened Chrome today? If you did and you clicked on Remove button, you are probably safe but if you chose to let the extension be added to your browser, you might be in trouble. On Tuesday, Adobe released latest updates to fix security issues […]
Technology giants Adobe, Microsoft Tuesday each released security updates and issued an upgrade for Flash Player and for Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft discharged only four updates to connect around 15 security gaps to Windows and related programming. From now and into the foreseeable future, a portion of the information focuses right now in the individual overhauls will be lumped […]
Adobe and Microsoft on Tuesday each released security updates for software installed on hundreds of millions of devices. Adobe issued an update for Flash Player and for Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft released just four updates to plug some 15 security holes in Windows and related software. Microsoft’s batch includes updates for Windows, Office and Microsoft Edge (Redmond’s replacement for Internet […]
Adobe is developing Photoshop for Audio Files that will let you add words one never said. Adobe’s developer Zeyu Jin revealed while speaking at the Adobe Max conference in San Diego, California, that the company will soon be introducing a unique software that would serve as a Photoshop for audio files. This project has been […]
Proofpoint researchers discovered that the Magnitude exploit kit (EK) [1] was successfully exploiting Adobe Flash version 20.0.0.306. Because the Magnitude EK in question did not direct any exploits to Flash 21.0.0.182, we initially suspected that the exploit was for CVE-2016-1001 as in Angler [2], the combination exploit “CVE-2016-0998/CVE-2016-0984” [3], or CVE-2016-1010. In the course of […]
ESET security researchers have discovered an Android malware targeting banking customers in Australia — The malware also bypasses the two-factor authentication system Four of Australia’s largest banks customers are being targeted by a sophisticated Android attack which has so far managed to remove two-factor authentication system and can steal banking details. The four big banks involved […]
Exploit Flash Heap Isolation for a chance to “win” $100,000 If you can exploit Adobe’s Heap Isolation mitigation in Flash player version 18.0.0209 – a mechanism deployed to patch the User-After-Free (UAF) vulnerabilities – you’re in for a sweet treat: Zerodium will, in fact, pay you good money. The startup, founded by Vupen, Chaouki Bekrar’s […]
After being an object of constant criticism universally by IT professionals for being volatile, unstable and unreliable, the time has come to bid farewell to Adobe Flash and welcome its new and improved version Animate. Adobe has renamed Flash Professional CC as Animate CC and moved the pivot to HTML5. Adobe tried its best to […]