In early April of this year a zero-day exploit (designated as CVE-2016-1019) was found in Adobe Flash Player. This particular flaw was soon used by the Magnitude Exploit Kit, which led to an Adobe out-of-cycle patch. This flaw was being used to lead to drive-by download attacks with Locky ransomware as the payload.
However, this did not end the threat for users. We recently saw a new variant of this attack that added an unusual twist. On top of the Flash exploit, an old escalation of privileges exploit in Windows (CVE-2015-1701) was used to bypass sandbox technologies.
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