Less than a week after shield researchers warned of a vulnerability in two Adobe programs that could allow hackers to compromise a PC comes yet another critical exploit that could hijack your desktop.

that moment, attackers have targeted Adobe’s Flash animation software. According to iDefense Labs, remote exploitation of the vulnerability in the Flash player could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary cipher with full user privileges. That means anything you could do with your PC, the attacker could,

“To exploit that vulnerability, a targeted user must load a malicious Shockwave Flash file created by an attacker,” iDefense Labs said. “An attacker typically accomplishes that via social engineering or injecting subject matter into a compromised, trusted site.”

Adobe’s Black Eye

Adobe already has a black eye considering of a zero-day vulnerability in Acrobat Reader that has attracted a lot of attention in the press and the shield community, according […]

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