Security researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new Flash exploit being used in targeted attacks against various government agencies. The exploit takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability in all versions of Flash, including the most recent, 19.0.0.207. It seems likely that the exploit will be used more widely in the near future.

Adobe quickly confirmed the vulnerability and announced in a security bulletin that a patch will be made available some time next week.

At this point one wonders whether there’s any code left in Flash that hasn’t been afflicted with security vulnerabilities at some point.

As always, if you can possibly live without Flash enabled in your browser, just disable it. If you need to use it, your best option is to configure your browser to always ask before displaying Flash content.