{"id":168615,"date":"2016-06-15T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=168615"},"modified":"2016-06-15T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T08:00:52","slug":"critical-security-flaw-in-flash-has-no-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168615-critical-security-flaw-in-flash-has-no-patch.html","title":{"rendered":"Critical security flaw in Flash has no patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a critical new security vulnerability in Flash Player that is being exploited, and Adobe will only be able to issue a patch later this week, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2016\/06\/critical-adobe-flash-bug-under-active-attack-currently-has-no-patch\/\">Ars Technica reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed\u00a0CVE-2016-4171, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/security\/products\/flash-player\/apsa16-03.html\">Adobe&#8217;s security advisory<\/a><\/strong> on the\u00a0vulnerability states it affects the latest version (21.0.0.242) of the Flash Player, and all earlier versions.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS versions of the Flash Player are affected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,&#8221; warned Adobe.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/blog\/research\/75082\/cve-2016-4171-adobe-flash-zero-day-used-in-targeted-attacks\/\">Kaspersky\u00a0reported<\/a><\/strong> that it has seen the exploit used by an advanced persistent threat\u00a0group called StarCruft.<\/p>\n<p>StarCruft&#8217;s victims have been observed in several countries, including Russia, South Korea, China, and India.<\/p>\n<p>One of the group&#8217;s major operations, Operation Daybreak, appears to use\u00a0a 0-day Flash Player exploit, focussing on high-profile victims.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe said it would have a patch &#8220;as early as&#8221; 16 June.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Flash<\/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\/security\/118255-adobe-flash-zero-day-exploit.html\"><strong>Adobe Flash Zero-Day exploit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/90731-38-million-accounts-compromised-in-extensive-adobe-data-breach.html\"><strong>38 million accounts compromised in extensive Adobe data breach<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/88191-adobe-customer-data-source-code-stolen-in-cyber-attack.html\"><strong>Adobe customer data, source code stolen in cyber attack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has issued an advisory over a new 0-day exploit in Flash, and Kaspersky has revealed information about attacks it is being used in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,2556,11399,37689,1595,37687],"class_list":["post-168615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-flash","tag-advanced-persistent-threat-apt","tag-kaspersky","tag-starcruft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168615"}],"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=168615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168621,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168615\/revisions\/168621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}