Clearly, reports of Flash’s death are greatly exaggerated, as exploit kits continue to successfully infect victims via unpatched versions of Flash Player. Instead of sounding Flash’s death knell, get to patching.
Adobe Flash Player has the dubious honor of being widely popular among exploit kits, as six of the top 10 vulnerabilities used by these crimeware kits targeted Flash vulnerabilities, according to new research from threat intelligence company Recorded Future. Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, various versions of the Windows operating system, and Silverlight rounded out the rest of the top 10, the researchers found after looking at 141 exploit kits over a year-long period.
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