Morphisec said that it has detected several malicious word documents – part of a “massive” malspam campaign – that takes advantage of a critical Adobe Flash Player vulnerability discovered earlier this month.

Adobe released an emergency Flash Player update that patches a use-after-free vulnerability being exploited in targeted attacks.

After a month free of Flash Player fixes and emergency patches, Adobe today resumed its monthly ritual of releasing a security update for the maligned software. Today’s update patched 29 issues, most of which enabled remote code execution attacks on the host system. Adobe also updated its Air SDK and Compiler, and Adobe Digital Editions....

Adobe today released security updates for its PDF editing and viewing products, Acrobat and Reader, and its ereader for books called Adobe Digital Editions. And while the customary Flash update is missing from today’s monthly rollout, Adobe said a new version of the software will be available “in the coming days.” Last month, Adobe patched...