New ransomware using a Java file format is targetting Linux and Windows devices. The Java-based ransomware uses JIMAGE, making it more difficult to detect.

Packaging Java web apps as WARs Like JAR, the Web Application ARchive (WAR), the default format for packaging Java web apps, isn't particularly special. When the Servlet and JavaServer Pages ...

Java applications, widely used in mobile games, robots, embedded systems, and business applications, have been scrutinized by European researchers.

They stated in TechCrunch that Tycoon uses a Java file format to make it more difficult to detect before deploying its payload that encrypts the files. How does Tycoon work ...

Security researchers have discovered a new kind of ransomware that uses a little-known Java file format to make it more difficult to detect before it detonates its file-encrypting payload ...