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

Posted by samzenpus on from the common-element dept.

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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  1. VMWare - when are you getting rid of it? by shocking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Crying shame that you need it for consoles and the like.

  2. Flash Bugs running on Microsoft Windows .. by nickweller · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs"

    Bugs in an application can only be exploited by defects in the underlying Operating System