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Malicious Java app infects Mac, Linux systems with DDoS bot |
February 01, 2014
Criminals are once again using Java’s cross-platform design to add Linux and Mac users to their usual Windows target list, Kaspersky Labs researchers have discovered.
The malicious Java application recently unearthed by the firm, HEUR:Backdoor.Java.Agent.a, is only the latest example of the opportunistic trend to use the huge potential of Java to get a malware three-for-one in the cause of turning systems into Distribued Denial of Service bots.
Once on the target system after hitting Java flaw CVE-2013-2465 (SE 7 Update 21 and earlier), patched last June, the malware sets up its command and control using IRC. According to Kaspersky, one of the targets on the receiving end of a DDoS attack might be an unnamed bulk email service.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2092414/malicious-java-app-infects-mac-linux-systems-with-ddos-bot.html#tk.rss_all
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