Flash ads on legitimate sites are pasting malicious links into peoples' clipboards and spreading as people unwittingly paste them into e-mails, blogs, and IMs.
Flash ads on legitimate sites are pasting malicious links into peoples' clipboards and spreading as people unwittingly paste them into e-mails, blogs, and IMs.
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A new type of Internet-based attack is spreading in which Flash-based ads seize control of a Web surfer's clipboard and paste in a link to a malicious site in the hopes that it will be spread from there into e-mails, blogs, and instant messages.
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Adobe's product security incident response team PSIRT says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on the PSIRT blog simply acknowledges the issue and promised more information after the investigation but, by mentioning...