ThreatList: Spam’s Revival is Tied to Adobe Flash’s Demise

Spam click-rates are up in 2018. Last year, 13.4 percent of spam messages that made it into inboxes were clicked on. So far, in 2018 that percentage has jumped to 14.2 percent. The numbers come from F-Secure, which reported Wednesday on the sorry state of users’ better judgment when it comes to...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For July 27

Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell sit down to discuss the top breaking news from the week. Stories of importance include shipping giant COSCO being hit with a ransomware attack, a Senator requesting a government mandate to stop using Adobe Flash by August 2019, and Facebook’s outgoing...

Sen. Wyden Urges Government Ban on Adobe Flash

Citing security concerns, Sen. Ron Wyden is urging the government to create a plan to transition away from Adobe Flash before the vendor stops supporting it in 2020. To that end, the Oregon Democrat delivered a formal request to the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards...

CVE-2018-5008

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have an Out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

CVE-2018-5008

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have an Out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

CVE-2018-5007

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have a Type Confusion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user...

Out-of-bounds

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have an Out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

Type confusion

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have a Type Confusion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user...

CVE-2018-5007

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have a Type Confusion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user...

CVE-2018-5008

Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.113 and earlier versions have an Out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to information disclosure...

Smaller Nation State Attacks: A Growing Cyber Menace

Last year, a Qatari state media website was compromised and defaced with false reports of the Emir of that country praising Iran and Hamas. The fake content was blasted on social media and amplified through bots, eventually provoking a regional boycott that persists today. Andrea Little Limbago...

Adobe Flash Player Out-of-Bounds Memory Read Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-13399)

Adobe Flash Player is a widely used, proprietary multimedia program player originally written by Macromedia and continued to be developed and distributed by Adobe after Macromedia was acquired by Adobe. Adobe Flash Player suffers from an out-of-bounds memory read vulnerability. A remote user coul...

Adobe Flash Player Within Google Chrome Security Update (APSB18-24) - Windows

Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:flashplayerchrome"...

Adobe Flash Player Security Updates (APSB18-24) - Windows

Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:flashplayer";...

Adobe Flash Player Security Updates (APSB18-24) - Mac OS X

Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:flashplayer";...

Adobe Flash Player Within Google Chrome Security Update (APSB18-24) - Mac OS X

Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:flashplayerchrome"...

Adobe Flash Player Security Updates (APSB18-24) - Linux

Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:flashplayer";...

Adobe Flash Player Within Google Chrome Security Update (APSB18-24) - Linux

Adobe Flash Player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:adobe:flashplayerchrome"...

Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 53 Vulnerabilities In Its Software

It's time to gear up your systems and software for the latest July 2018 Microsoft security patch updates. Microsoft today released security patch updates for 53 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer IE, Edge, ChakraCore, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, PowerShell, Visual Studio, and...

Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 53 Vulnerabilities In Its Software

It's time to gear up your systems and software for the latest July 2018 Microsoft security patch updates. Microsoft today released security patch updates for 53 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer IE, Edge, ChakraCore, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, PowerShell, Visual Studio, and...