Cyber spies exploiting Java, Flash flaws

Cyber spies have planted Java- and Flash-exploiting malware on Web sites focused on human rights, defense and foreign policy.

Over the last two weeks, the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks Internet threats, has discovered several such compromised Web sites that download the malware through visitors' browsers. The malware, which exploits known flaws in Adobe Flash and Java, is aimed at Mac and Windows systems...........

Such targeted attacks have become a major problem for corporations, particularly those within the defense industry or manufacturing. In its 2011 annual security report, network equipment maker Cisco found that cyber criminals were moving from large-scale attacks using spam to working for organizations that pay handsomely for electronic documents stolen from particular international corporations and law firms, government agencies and research organizations.....

In the latest attacks, the malware opens up a backdoor in infected systems, in order to receive commands from a control server located in a remote location. The server also receives stolen data..........

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