A recently patched Flash Player exploit is being used in widespread attacks

An exploit for the previously zero-day CVE-2016-4117 vulnerability is now in the Magnitude exploit kit.

By Lucian Constantin

It took hackers less than two weeks to integrate a recently patched Flash Player exploit into widely used Web-based attack tools that are being used to infect computers with malware.

The vulnerability, known as CVE-2016-4117, was discovered earlier this month by security researchers FireEye. It was exploited in targeted attacks through malicious Flash content embedded in Microsoft Office documents.

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