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The Java 0day activity that we have been monitoring and preventing for almost the past week has been irresponsibly reported on other blogs, with early posts publicly linking to known sites serving the 0day. In itself, the race to publish on this 0day that will be assigned CVE-2012-4681 (a problem with processing access control within […]

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An unpatched JRE 1.7/Java 7 zero-day vulnerability was recently found to be exploited by a malicious .JAR file hosted on a specific site. Successful exploit leads to the download of a backdoor, in effect allowing remote malicious users to execute their desired commands on the vulnerable system. The zero-day exploit successfully runs in all versions […]

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Before Java can release a patch for the recent zero-day exploit blogged by Sean earlier, Blackhole waltzes into the scene with an update. So the exploit kit users can now avail of the latest BH with the new zero-day exploit (CVE-2012-4681). I wonder if this will actually put a spike on Blackhole sales. The authors […]

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