Friday 11 January 2013

Java 0-day In The Wild - Disable Java Plugin NOW

Security researchers have discovered yet another critical Java 0-day exploit being used by majority of the browser exploit packs such as Blackhole and Cool. Users are urged to DISABLE the Java plugin RIGHT NOW.

French researcher Kaffeine discovered that the java 0-day has been spotted to be making big hits daily, in a blog post. This particular exploit has proven to be very serious threat for the users. The folks at AlienVault Lab have also reproduced the exploit and it seems to work over all the java versions across all platforms which is a very serious threat.

As for now, the users are highly urged to disable their JAVA plugins right now so that they do not get hit by these 0-days.

So what are you waiting for?

Important links:


How To Disable Java Plugin

Kaffeine's blog post

Alien Vault Labs Post