The NGSSoftware team has found a way to embed a Java applet within a GIF; the hybridized file is referred to as a GIFAR. Just to make it clear, this is a file extension of convenience and not the ...

New security attack via Java applet This security slip-up could allow a malicious Web site operator to take any action on your PC that you could. Written by Victor Latona, Contributor Oct. 16 ...

However, while analyzing the command and control servers used in the campaign, security researchers from Seculert discovered a special folder containing a malicious Java applet — Web-based Java ...

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers.

In 2010, a similar Java-applet-based social engineering attack capable of executing malicious code on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers, was used to distribute the Boonana Trojan program.

The same Java vulnerability used in the infamous Flashback malware is now being used as an attack vector for a single piece of malware that can infect both Windows and Mac OS X computers.

"Java thinks the stolen certificate used is 100% valid and should be trusted," Jindrich Kubec, director of threat intelligence at antivirus provider Avast, wrote in an e-mail.

IASI, ROMANIA - A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac computers, according to security researchers ...

Seculert researchers identified a Java exploit and corresponding attack pages on Red October command and control servers Topics Spotlight: AI in Enterprise ...

A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux, and Mac computers, according to security researchers from antivirus ...

The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word ...

A new Web-based social engineering attack that relies on malicious Java applets attempts to install backdoors on Windows, Linux and Mac computers, according to security researchers from antivirus ...