Posts Tagged ‘jre’

CVE-2012-1876: Recent update to the Cool Exploit Kit landing page

May

2013

A recently debuted exploit kit (EK), called “Cool EK,” and detected by us with the name Exploit:JS/Coolex, has been known to include various exploits targeting Oracle JRE, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player to Windows kernel-mode drivers. If you’re unlucky enough to visit a webpage that hosts Cool EK, you might encounter all these exploits in […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

Java Drive by download attack

Dec

2011

Recently I blogged about how attackers are forcing users to download fake codecs to spread malicious content. I’ve also encountered across another drive by download attack vector, which uses Java applets to execute downloaded malicious content on the victim’s machine. Download and execution of malicious content happens without user interaction. Let’s take look at a […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2011

Oct

2011

Overshadowed by the Duqu madness yesterday, Oracle released a slew of critical updates (please see “Related Links” in the right column of this page). Most interesting, but perhaps with little impact, is the Java SE BEAST update. Oracle claims to have pushed 57 different fixes across their product lines, including patches for Java and their […]

Category General Written by Securelist / Blog 0 Comments

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