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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. Does anyone actually install a JRE any more? by tlambert · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone actually install a JRE any more?

    Yeah, I didn't think it was very many.

    OK of those who have one installed, you you allow it to run as a browser plugin?

    Yeah, I didn't think so.