Security News > 2021 > January > Adobe Releases First Security Updates of 2021 as It Blocks Flash Content
Adobe on Tuesday released its first round of security updates for 2021, just as the company starts blocking Flash content.
Adobe has patched a total of eight vulnerabilities across seven of its products, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, Campaign Classic, InCopy, Captivate and Bridge.
On Tuesday, January 12, Adobe started blocking Flash content from running in Flash Player after the software reached end of life on December 31, 2020.
Major web browser vendors are also disabling Flash Player and Adobe will remove all download links.
Flash Player vulnerabilities were often exploited by threat actors in their operations, but hackers increasingly started turning their attention to other software after Adobe, in mid-2017, announced plans to kill Flash.
In 2018, when threat groups were still targeting Flash vulnerabilities, Adobe released over a dozen security updates, but the number of updates dropped to six in 2019 and only three in 2020.