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Microsoft and Adobe warn of separate zero-day vulnerabilities under attack

Microsoft and Adobe warn of separate zero-day vulnerabilities under attack

May 11, 2016

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Windows users woke up to something that doesn’t happen every day: the disclosure of two zero-day vulnerabilities, one in the Microsoft operating system and the other in Adobe’s Flash Player.

The Windows bug is being actively exploited in the wild, making it imperative that users install fixes that Microsoft released today as part of its May Patch Tuesday. Cataloged as CVE-2016-0189, the security flaw allows attackers to surreptitiously execute malicious code when vulnerable computers visit booby-trapped websites.

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