Infected Web Ads Use Flash Flaws to Spread Ransomware

[Jill Scharr]

Triple-whammy: The Fessleaks malvertising campaign uses new Adobe Flash Player flaws to infect unsuspecting Web browsers with ransomware.

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[Christopher1]

Might it be time for Adobe to clean up their act, break some of the backwards compatibility, and make it so that Flash CANNOT be used to infect someone's computer?
Seriously, nearly every single time I hear of something like this that is "Drive-by and pwn'd" it comes from Flash.