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The “Nitro” Campaign and Java Zero-Day

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Aug

2012

The security community has been focused on the new Java zero-day exploits that appear to have been taken from a Chinese exploit pack (known as Gondad or KaiXin) used in targeted attacks by the “Nitro” cyber-espionage campaign and then incorporated into criminal operations using the BlackHole Exploit Kit. While the connections between these developments are […]

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Java zero day = time to disable Java, in your browser at least

30

Aug

2012

Now is the time to disable Java in your web browser, or even remove it from your system if that is practical. Why? The bad guys are hard at work trying to exploit a zero day vulnerability in the latest version of Java (version 1.7, Update 6.). This vulnerability is the subject of a US-CERT […]

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New Java 0-day added to Blackhole Exploit Kit

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Aug

2012

Earlier today we blogged about a new Java zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) being used in a small number of attacks. That's about to change as exploit code for the Java vulnerability has been added to the most prevalent exploit kit out there; Blackhole. Here's a snippet of the updated Blackhole code: The Pre.jar file (VirusTotal link) […]

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