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Expack continues exploiting Java vulnerability

Aug

2013

Exploit kits available in the wild tend to follow a trend by exploiting vulnerabilities reported in various browser components which are commonly deployed. Recently, we have seen an increase in exploitation of a year old vulnerability reported in the JRE component of JAVA (CVE-2012-1723). Exploitation of this vulnerability in JRE allows a attacker to download malware […]

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New spear of Black Hole exploit kit targets Java Vulnerability CVE-2012-1723

Jul

2012

In early July, an update to the Black Hole exploit kit targeted Java vulnerability CVE-2012-1723. The vulnerability could evade the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) sandbox and load additional Java classes in order to perform malicious actions. Details about the vulnerability are here. Although most of the sites used in the attack are newly registered, the Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network can detect an attack […]

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Blackhole, CVE-2012-0507 and Carberp

Mar

2012

This week Blackhole has been updated to version 1.2.3 and includes a new exploit for the Java CVE-2012-0507 vulnerability, which ESET calls Java/ Exploit.CVE-2012-0507. Earlier this week information was published about the Blackhole update by French malware researcher Xylitol and last week Microsoft shared information about an interesting way of breaching the JRE (Java Runtime […]

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Expack continues exploiting Java vulnerability

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