Visitors Porn Sites Attacked By Flash Player Leak

Visitors from different porn sites, including one that is on the Internet in the Top 1000 most visited sites are attacked by a leak in Adobe Flash Player which published an update until recent days. The attack took place through ads displayed on porn sites.

That says security firm FireEye. Once the ads were shown malware could be installed on the system in a vulnerable browser.To which websites are just the IT security officer does not know. However, the advertisements used a variant of the attack which was observed in the first instance. That first attack was carried out by the Angler Exploitkit while the new attack does not use this exploitkit.

The original Angler attack used some JavaScript and try to detect the presence of virtual machines and scanners, while the new variant no obfuscation used or analyzes the environment. The exploit for Flash Player in this case is loaded via normal JavaScript. The attack is successful then a variant of the Reveton ransomware-installed. Reveton locks the computer and that the user has committed a crime. In order to prevent criminal prosecution and to regain access to the system must be an amount of money to be paid.

Meanwhile, there is for all users released an update that fixes the leak. Through this page can be checked which version of Flash Player installed on your computer. The Finnish F-Secure let know that the Angler Exploitkit last week was the most popular exploitkit among cybercriminals. The virus fighter advises Internet users in addition to installing the update also to set click-to-play. In this case, the user must first click on a Flash object before it is loaded. In this way it can automatically be prevented infecting the computer via browser plug-ins.