Download Latest version of Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 (64/32 bit). Adobe Flash Player client runtime helping you view videos open games on your computer and work with virtually all browsers out there It is a unique plugin that enables browsers to display and reproduce Flash Media on the sites The player is supported by most OS mobile phones and other gadgets This software can play audio. Nov 14, 2017 Adobe Flash Player installed with Google Chrome will be automatically updated to the latest Google Chrome version, which will include Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.187 for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. Adobe Flash Player installed with Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 10 and 8.1 will be automatically updated to the.

Learn how to remove fake Adobe Flash Player update virus from Mac and thereby prevent the browser from being redirected to rogue software installation websites.

Update: May 2020

Threat Profile
Name	Fake Adobe Flash Player update virus
Category	Mac browser hijacker, redirect/popup virus, Mac adware
Detection	Avast: MacOS:AMC-DK [PUP], Avira: PUA/OSX.GT32SupportGeeks.hflsn, BitDefender: Adware.MAC.Generic.12496, ESET: A Variant Of OSX/GT32SupportGeeks.B, Kaspersky: Trojan-Downloader.OSX.Shlayer.a, Microsoft: PUA:MacOS/AMCleaner.B!MTB, Sophos: AdvancedMacCleaner (PUA), Symantec: OSX.Trojan.Gen.2
Domains involved	deej.almeusciu.site, upgradecircle.findgreatsourceforupgrade.info, afew.zoyufo.pw, upgradebestmaintenancetheclicks.icu, s3.amazonaws.com, updatemostrenewedapplication.best
Symptoms	Interrupts web sessions with fake Flash Player update popups, redirects to deceptive sites, causes browser slowdown
Distribution Techniques	Freeware bundles, torrents, booby-trapped software updates, misleading popup ads
Severity Level	Medium
Damage	Interference with browsing settings, harmful downloads, privacy issues due to Internet activity tracking, search redirects, malicious ads
Removal	Scan your Mac with Combo Cleaner to detect all files related to the browser hijacker. Use the tool to remove the infection if found.

The Adobe Flash Player update virus is one of the common ways cybercriminals try to deposit additional harmful code onto a Mac. It usually operates in tandem with such threats as bogus system utilities that report non-existent problems and thus attempt to manipulate users into activating the licensed copy of the scareware. This type of a ruse can be used to promote such unwanted apps as Mac Auto Fixer, Mac Cleanup Pro, Easy Mac Care or Advanced Mac Tuneup. These opportunistic infections will run phony scans of the host system and claim to detect hundreds of issues – ones that aren’t there for real. This hoax is also the pivot for distributing the nastiest Mac adware threats to date, including Search Pulse, Any Search Manager, TapuFind, Chill-Tab, and the a.akamaihd.net redirect virus that underlies most of these dubious services. The targeted Mac users therefore deal with a triple contamination scenario, where they first encounter recurrent and really annoying instances of browser rerouting and then suffer the consequences of counterfeit software activity combined with redirects leading to fake search engines and advertising networks. It’s the early stage of the brainwashing that is backed by the Adobe Flash Player update virus popups.

The reason why the architects of this trickery have added the Flash Player to the mix of their shenanigans is probably because it’s a commonly used program trusted by most users. The caveat is that a completely different piece of code is camouflaged as the explicitly stated software. This part of the incursion is usually isolated to the web browser, although there are rare cases where the misguiding popups appear when the browser is closed. The virus manifests itself through random redirects to a site that instantly displays a popup alert saying:

'Adobe Flash Player' is out of date
To continue using “Adobe Flash Player”, download an updated version.

The wording in the spoofed notifications may be different, though. A few other common examples are as follows: “Flash Player update is available for your computer”, “Your system is missing critical plugin updates”, “Install the latest Flash Player for better performance”, and “Flash Player might be out-of-date. The version of this plug-in on your computer might not include the latest security updates”. Meanwhile, a prompt at the top of the page layout may wrongfully emphasize that “Latest version of Adobe Flash Player is required to encode and/or decode (Play) audio files in high quality”. Everybody likes quality multimedia content, so a lot of users end up falling for this trick.

In all of these adverse situations, those who pay attention to detail will notice that there is something wrong with such a recommendation. First off, the URL of the website that generates these Adobe Flash Player update popups is a giveaway. Obviously, it has nothing to do with the genuine vendor, being clearly designed to mimic the legit update workflow. Furthermore, despite the fact that the alerts may provide a button to opt out, such as “Later” or “Cancel”, clicking it isn’t likely to close the dialogs for more than a few milliseconds. The pre-configured website script will relaunch the ads, so the victims may have to force quit Safari, Chrome, Firefox – or whatever browser is infected – to get the bogus notifications out of the way.

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A few examples of the spoofed promo pages massively reported by victims are deej.almeusciu.site, upgradecircle.findgreatsourceforupgrade.info and afew.zoyufo.pw. The list of these malware serving domains is constantly expanding as old ones are being knocked offline in response to victims’ complaints or blacklisting on the browser end. Incidentally, the above-mentioned scam sites splashed onto the scene amidst a spike in the fake Flash Player update hoax in March 2020, which co-occurred with a very unsettling trend. Numerous Mac users claim to be redirected to these malware-riddled pages when on reputable resources with huge user audiences, including CNN and NY Times news outlets. One of the theories why this could be happening is that the criminals may have somehow injected malicious scripts into a number of popular websites so that the visitors end up being forwarded to unwanted landing pages.

A whole new attack mechanism with the fake Adobe Flash Player update popups at its core is distributing an emerging Mac threat codenamed Tarmac. Also known as OSX/Tarmac, this infection relies on another type of harmful code called Trojan:OSX/Shlayer. The latter is a notorious Mac Trojan whose objective is to set large-scale malvertising schemes in motion. Its original entry point is a phony alert about an out-of-date version of the Flash Player. Once inside, it reaches out to the Command and Control server and downloads a copy of Tarmac onto the host. The second-stage malware is code signed and leverages RSA encryption to camouflage the fishy gist of its payload, which allows the pest to fly below the radar of quarantine-aware software running on the Mac. As soon as OSX/Tarmac is launched, it attempts to elevate its privileges on the machine by generating a dialog that says, “Play wants to make changes”.

This popup asks for the administrator’s username and password, making it look like the request comes from Adobe Flash Player. Even if the victim is prudent enough to refrain from entering the credentials, Tarmac continues to run with fairly high permissions. Just like Shlayer, it can easily connect to its C&C server and download arbitrary c

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