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Hackers Target Java 6 With Security Exploits

posted onAugust 27, 2013
by l33tdawg

Warning to anyone still using Java 6: Upgrade now to Java 7 to avoid being compromised by active attacks.

That alert came via F-Secure anti-malware analyst Timo Hirvonen, who reported finding an in-the-wild exploit actively targeting an unpatched vulnerability in Java 6 following the recent publication of related proof-of-concept (POC) attack code. The Java runtime environment (JRE) bug (CVE-2013-2463), was publicly revealed when Oracle released Java 7 update 25 in June 2013, which remains the most recent version of Java.

 "PoC for CVE-2013-2463 was released last week, now it's exploited in the wild," tweeted Hirvonen. "No patch for JRE6 ... Uninstall or upgrade to JRE7 update 25." He added,"At least [the] Neutrino exploit kit seems to have added [an] exploit for [the vulnerability]."

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