The huge cache of files recently leaked from Italian surveillance software maker Hacking Team is the gift that keeps on giving for attackers. Researchers sifting through the data found a new exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player.
This is the second Flash Player zero-day exploit discovered among the files
and the third overall—researchers also found a zero-day exploit for a vulnerability in Windows.
A zero-day exploit is a previously unknown vulnerability for which a patch does not exist.
The first Flash Player exploit was identified Tuesday, less than two days after a hacker dumped on the Internet over 400GB worth of files, email communications, business documents, source code and other internal data from the Milan-based company that sells computer surveillance and intrusion tools to government agencies around the world.
