

This exploit was quickly added to popular crimeware exploit kits (products that make it easy for an amateur criminal to create and deploy malware). This data included among other things a previously-unknown exploit against Adobe Flash Player. Current latest version is 23.0.0.207.Įarly this week, the security firm Hacking Team was the victim of a massive network breach in which a large amount of company data was stolen and made public. Also of note, the recommendation to make browser plug-ins "Click to Play" is effective against exploits in all sorts of plug-ins, including Flash, Java, Silverlight, Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player, and more. This article was written about a specific incident the first week of July 2015, but the instructions are what I have recommended for at least a year - and will continue to be appropriate into the future.
