Security News > 2017 > October > Hackers Use New Flash Zero-Day Exploit to Distribute FinFisher Spyware
2017-10-16 08:53
FinSpy—the infamous surveillance malware is back and infecting high-profile targets using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit delivered through Microsoft Office documents. Security researchers from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Flash, which was being actively exploited in the wild by a group of advanced persistent threat actors,
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