8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs (recordedfuture.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Adobe Flash Player provided eight of the top 10 vulnerabilities used by exploit kits in 2015. Angler is currently the most popular exploit kit, regularly tied to malware including Cryptolocker. Vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Silverlight are also major targets. All of these are the conclusions of a Recorded Future report.

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Re:And the rest we're probably Jave, Acrobat, and

[GNious]

In a world where Flash is not required for any functionality, and where it has been a known security risk for a long while, websites that require it are either painfully incompetent, or malicious - feel free to remind hostmasters of this.