Exploit Kits Feed off Flash Bugs, but One IE Vulnerability Is Their Favorite

Exploit kit authors have a penchant for exploiting Flash issues, with 27 of the 76 vulnerabilities detected as part of exploit kit arsenals being Flash issues, some as old as 2013.

This finding is the result of a Digital Shadows study that analyzed all the 22 exploit kits active in the past years.

Only five exploit kits remain active

Researchers discovered that these exploit kits incorporated different vulnerabilities, mostly public and patched, all depending on the skill of the exploit kit's developer.

The study confirms once again that the most popular exploit kits were Angler (now defunct), Neutrino, Nuclear (now defunct), Magnitude, and RIG. Other popular exploit kits inc...