Time to update your Flash player

by multippt on May 30, 2008

If you haven’t got­ten ver­sion 9.0.124.0 of Adobe Flash player, please do get it quickly, since an exploit found in ear­lier ver­sions is being used actively. Older ver­sions of Flash player are at risk.

The flaw is being used by Chi­nese hack­ers (pre­sum­ably, since most of the affected sites are in China) to steal World of War­craft pass­words through the instal­la­tion of a key­log­ger that records key­strokes for cer­tain pro­grammes. It also attempts to dis­able Kasper­sky Anti-virus (for­tu­nately most other anti-viruses are not affected).

The attack­ers also attempted mass SQL injec­tion attacks (i.e. attempt­ing to insert some “addi­tional” stuff or mod­ify things in your site) early on and are using these vic­tim sites as a means of

While the bug affects Inter­net Explorer more often than Fire­fox in a way, it’s still a good idea to update your Flash player imme­di­ately (even if you not play World of Warcraft).

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