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Adobe urges users to install latest security update as firm warns hackers are exploiting its Flash software to target victims around the world
16 October 2017
- Malware called FinSpy or FinFisher connects computer to external servers
- Then awaits instructions from Switzerland, Bulgaria and the Netherlands servers
- Problem affected Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer
- Victims so far observed in Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, the UK, Iran, Africa
- Adobe said it had released a Flash security update to fix the problem
The warning came after cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab Inc said a group it was tracking, BlackOasis, used the previously unknown weakness on Oct. 10 to plant malicious software on computers before connecting them back to servers in Switzerland, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.
Kaspersky said the malware, known as FinSpy or FinFisher, is a commercial product typically sold to nation states and law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-exploiting-Flash-software.html#ixzz4vieXYWHD
16 October 2017
- Malware called FinSpy or FinFisher connects computer to external servers
- Then awaits instructions from Switzerland, Bulgaria and the Netherlands servers
- Problem affected Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer
- Victims so far observed in Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan, the UK, Iran, Africa
- Adobe said it had released a Flash security update to fix the problem
The warning came after cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab Inc said a group it was tracking, BlackOasis, used the previously unknown weakness on Oct. 10 to plant malicious software on computers before connecting them back to servers in Switzerland, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.
Kaspersky said the malware, known as FinSpy or FinFisher, is a commercial product typically sold to nation states and law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...-exploiting-Flash-software.html#ixzz4vieXYWHD
