Author Topic: PSA: Huge Flash vulnerability detected, disable Flash until further notice  (Read 1211 times)

foxhack

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/exploits-2/2015/07/neutrino-ek-leverages-latest-flash-0day/

TL;DR -- There's cryptolocker malware right now that's exploiting vulnerabilities in Flash and everyone can be hit by this crap. Turn off Flash right the hell now, or at least change it to "click to play" in your browser until it's patched. Instructions here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/188059/how-to-enable-click-to-play-plugins-in-every-web-browser/

Warmsignal

I received a notice of an update for this very kind of thing a few days ago. So, again?

foxhack

Yes, again. The current version of Flash is still unpatched and a patch will go live tomorrow.

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-03.html

pacpix

I received a notice of an update for this very kind of thing a few days ago. So, again?
Well Flash is kind of always being exploited.

Seriously though turn off Flash and get a free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit; Flash is used less and less online these days anyway.
On a related not I can highly recommend all of the products Malwarebytes has to offer, been using them for years and the CEO even took the time to do an email interview with me for my high school senior research project on malware. 
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tripredacus

Firefox automatically disabled Flash once this vulnerability was reported... Last week sometime.