MadAdsMedia, a US-based web advertising network, was compromised by cybercriminals to lead the visitors of sites that use their advertising platform to Adobe Flash exploits delivered by the Nuclear Exploit Kit. Up to 12,500 users per day may have been affected by this threat; three countries account for more than half of the hits: Japan, the United States,…
Read MoreWe have found an interesting discrepancy in how the Angler exploit kit targets Adobe Flash. The Angler exploit kit is known for its use of various Adobe Flash Player exploits. Reports have indicated that Angler has started targeting CVE-2015-0359, a vulnerability that was fixed in Adobe’s April 2015 update. CVE-2015-0359 is a race condition vulnerability that occurs because ByteArray::Write is…
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