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Brazilian Coders Are Pioneering the First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files

Posted by timothy on from the run-anywhere dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Criminal gangs in Brazil are experimenting with the first malware families that are packaged as JAR files, capable of being deployed to Windows, Linux, Mac, and even Android from the same codebase, instead of relying on 4 different versions. Right now, only the malware dropper, a component used to infect computers with banking trojans, seems to have been coded in Java, but security experts expect a full-blown banking trojan to soon follow.

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  1. That's it, I'm switching to CP/M by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no Java for CP/M-Z80, so I'm safe from being target by cross platform malware [or being targeted by applications in general].

  2. "First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "First Cross-OS Malware Using JAR Files"

    I used to have that one. It was developed by Sun, and called the Java plugin.

  3. Re:Does anyone actually install a JRE any more? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that's a bad analogy because we already know that C is the devil. But you get the picture.

    Well, any reasonably skilled programmer have several deals with the devil, and for about half of them the devil feels he got the short end of the stick.

    My comments are usually ascii pentagrams, but they only show with a tabsize of 4.