- Dec 30, 2012
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"Adobe has released another emergency update for its widely used Flash Player to combat active attacks that exploit a previously unknown security bug that hackers are actively exploiting to surreptitiously install malware on end-user computers.
The vulnerability, which affects the latest versions of Flash, was being exploited in drive-by attacks on the websites of at least three nonprofit organizations, according to a blog post published Thursday by researchers from security firm FireEye. Two of the institutions—the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Smith Richardson Foundation—focus on matters of national security and public policy. The targets, combined with the technical signatures of the attacks themselves, have led researchers to suspect that the attackers are the same ones behind similar campaigns from 2012. The FireEye researchers wrote:"
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The vulnerability, which affects the latest versions of Flash, was being exploited in drive-by attacks on the websites of at least three nonprofit organizations, according to a blog post published Thursday by researchers from security firm FireEye. Two of the institutions—the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Smith Richardson Foundation—focus on matters of national security and public policy. The targets, combined with the technical signatures of the attacks themselves, have led researchers to suspect that the attackers are the same ones behind similar campaigns from 2012. The FireEye researchers wrote:"
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