Simply viewing a GIFAR won't infect a system; the attack method requires that the user be linked to the hybridized infection from an appropriately malicious web site.

Microsoft has warned of three flaws affecting its software, the most serious of which would allow an attacker to gain full control of a PC using Java applets.

In 2010, a similar Java-applet-based social engineering attack capable of executing malicious code on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers, was used to distribute the Boonana Trojan program.

The same Java vulnerability used in the infamous Flashback malware is now being used as an attack vector for a single piece of malware that can infect both Windows and Mac OS X computers.

The price of freedom, as they say, is eternal vigilance. A user called bitbully on the Bitcointalk Forums found himself 34 bitcoins poorer when he visited a site claiming to be a chat service ...

A recently patched Java remote-code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scareware, security researchers warn.

Thanks, Oracle: New Java malware protection undone by old-school attack Stolen certificate hosted on legit site by default trusted as safe by plugins.

Seculert researchers identified a Java exploit and corresponding attack pages on Red October command and control servers The hundreds of government, military and research organizations targeted in ...