Flash Player is Dead, Long Live Flash Player!
Summary: Adobe detailed plans to retire Flash Player by the end of 2020, enlisting Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla to phase out the plugin. Google said Flash usage among desktop Chrome users fell from at least 80 percent three years ago to 17 percent, while Recorded Future found Flash vulnerabilities accounted for six of the top 10 vulnerabilities used by exploit kits in 2016.
What you should know: Flash has been the top moneymaker for commercial exploit kits, and Adobe will not stop shipping it until 2020 - leaving roughly three more years in which unpatched plugin flaws remain a preferred entry point for crimeware stitched into hacked or malicious sites.
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