No surprise here: Adobe's Flash is a hacker's favorite target

A new study adds to already compelling evidence that Flash should be retired.

By Jeremy Kirk

Adobe Systems’ Flash plugin gets no love from anyone in the security field these days. A new study released Monday shows just how much it is favored by cybercriminals to sneak their malware onto computers.

It looked at more than 100 exploit kits, which are frameworks planted in Web pages that automatically probe for software vulnerabilities when a user browses to a page.

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