The last two years seem dominated by PDF vulnerabilities. As far as the specification and its various readers are concerned, there is likely more sour fruit yet to be uncovered; it’s simply too complex and full of dangerous “features.” But a few blogs have recently hinted that there may be a new vector emerging with surprising popularity. Brian Krebs suggests that exploit crimeware packages have begun reporting significant success rates with Java exploits; data collected by the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) seems to agree. After taking a look at what Cisco ScanSafe had to share on the topic, it seems clear that the threat landscape appears to be shifting under our noses.

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Tags: java, ScanSafe, security