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An analysis of an MS office document exploiting a zero-day flash player vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878)

  • Quick Heal Security Labs / 8 years
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Important update! Adobe Systems released a critical security update on 6.02.2017 to fix the vulnerability discussed in this post. We recommend you to apply the update immediately. Summary of the vulnerability CVE-2018-4878 is a use-after-free vulnerability present in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and its earlier versions are being exploited in the wild. A successful exploitation […]

Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) in Disguise of Software Updates

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 10 years
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  • 7 min read

It has been observed that cyber criminals are using genuine names to enter into their targeted victim’s system. They are doing this by displaying random pop-up ads on Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Google Chrome that prompts the user to update Adobe Flash Player, Java, media players, etc. These pop-up ads are not from the developers […]