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Adobe rushes out fix for exploited Flash bug

By a Staff Writer

Oct 17 2017 6:45AM

After Kaspersky discovers hackers using flaw to deploy FinFisher.

Adobe rushes out fix for exploited Flash bug

Adobe has issued an emergency patch for its Flash software after discovering hackers are actively exploiting the newly-discovered bug in the wild. The patch came after Kaspersky Lab said a group it was tracking, BlackOasis, used the previously unknown weakness on October 10 to plant Fin...

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