A new attack on SSL is threatening the Internet again, it allows bad actors to decrypt traffic over secure channels. The POODLE against SSL 3.0.0 attack has been disclosed by the same team of researcher that made public BEAST (2011) and CRIME (2012) attack. The attack could be exploited by bad actor to eavesdrop the victims traffic over a secure channel implementing a man-in-the-middle tactic. The vulnerability was documented by the Google security experts Bodo Mller, Thai Duong, and Krzysztof Kotowicz.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/29254/security/ssl-3-0-poodle.html