Infected Web Ads Use Flash Flaws to Spread Ransomware

It's a perfect storm of Internet iniquity: A three-month-old malvertising campaign is exploiting two recently discovered Adobe Flash Player flaws to infect people's computers with ransomware. If you're counting, that's three cybercrime buzzwords in one — and the result is a dire threat that may have affected popular websites such as the Huffington Post and Answers.com.

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