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Researchers claim that APT3, widely believed to be a China-based threat actor, is directly connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS).
A look at 200 zero day vulnerabilities reveals key details on longevity, value and how long it takes to create one after a software vulnerability has been identified.
Exploits for the most recent Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability have been integrated into the Neutrino and Magnitude exploit kits, and are leading compromised computers to different ransomware strains and a credential-stealing Trojan. A French researcher who goes by the handle Kafeine told Threatpost that Neutrino has embedded a working exploit for CVE-2016-4117 while Magnitude...
As zero days in Adobe Flash Player continue to bubble to the surface, major technology players are announcing their plans to shove the maligned software aside in favor of HTML5. Google is the latest, announcing recently that by Q4 of this year, HTML5 would be the default in the Chrome browser, except for content on...
Exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player are being aggressively distributed in two exploit kits. The zero day, meanwhile, was patched by Adobe in an emergency update released Thursday night. Attackers are using the previously unpatched flaw in the maligned Flash Player to infect victims with either Locky or Cerber ransomware. Locky is a relatively...