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Emergency Flash 0day Patch – Daily Security Byte

October 18, 2017 By Corey Nachreiner

After skipping their normal monthly patch day for the first time in years, Adobe was forced to release an emergency update to fix a zero day Flash vulnerability that attackers are exploiting in the wild. According to Kaspersky, criminals are leveraging this flaw in spear phishing emails that contain malicious, Flash-embedded Office documents. If you open one of these booby-trapped documents, it installs the Finfisher malware. Watch the video below for more details, and patch Flash if you got it.

Episode Runtime: 1:31

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXIa1Cqo5s

EPISODE REFERENCES:

  • Adobe releases emergency Flash update to fix zero day – The Register
  • Adobe’s security advisory page – Adobe
  • Microsoft’s Windows Flash updates – Microsoft

—Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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  1. matt says

    October 19, 2017 at 5:16 am

    Be careful if you are a VMware user as the new flash updates will cause the web client to crash.

    https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2151945

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