Adobe flash player for mac malware3/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While I wasn't able to capture the exact trigger for the popup advertising the update, I suspect it was injected by one of the many ads on the page: The "Installer" for the fake Flash update will install various scare ware (I observed a couple different varieties when re-running the installer), and it actually installs an up to date genuine version of Flash as well. Instead, the user is asked to willingly install them, by making them look like genuine Adobe Flash warnings (and we keep telling users to make sure Flash is up to date, so they are likely going to obey the warning and install the update). They do not rely on a vulnerability in the operating system. Fake flash updates have been very common to infect OS X. Yesterday, while investigating some Facebook click-bait, I came across a fake Flash update that is targeting OS X users. ![]()
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