{"id":161050,"date":"2016-04-08T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161050"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:00:04","slug":"new-flash-exploit-used-to-infect-victims-with-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161050-new-flash-exploit-used-to-infect-victims-with-ransomware.html","title":{"rendered":"New Flash exploit used to infect victims with ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe\u2019s Flash player was recently used to spread ransomware known as Cerber, said\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proofpoint.com\/us\/threat-insight\/post\/killing-zero-day-in-the-egg\">Proofpoint<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Proofpoint discovered the bug on 2 April, and a colleague at FireEye confirmed it was a previously-unknown vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe issued an advisory 5 April (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/security\/products\/flash-player\/apsa16-01.html&quot;\" target=\"_blank\">CVE\u20132016\u20131019<\/a><\/strong>), followed by a patch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u00a0vulnerability affecting all versions of Flash Player, attackers only targeted older versions of the software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe refer to this type of faulty implementation as a \u2018degraded\u2019 mode,&#8221; said Proofpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Proofpoint said degraded implementations of potential zero-day exploits offer security researchers and vendors an opportunity to identify and mitigate previously unknown vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Adobe Flash security<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/148243-stop-using-flash-says-adobe.html\"><strong>Stop using Flash, says Adobe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/132320-using-flash-is-like-leaving-your-home-open-and-sending-invites-to-criminals.html\"><strong>Using Flash is like leaving your home open and sending invites to criminals<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/132062-kill-flash.html\"><strong>Kill Flash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/118255-adobe-flash-zero-day-exploit.html\"><strong>Adobe Flash Zero-Day exploit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has issued an emergency patch for a zero-day bug that was used to spread Cerber ransomware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[36,2556,11399],"class_list":["post-161050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-software","tag-active","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161052,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161050\/revisions\/161052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}