Via The Inquirer:
CYBER CROOKS are once again targeting Java users, but this time taking advantage of the cross-platform design to threaten Linux and Mac users, Kaspersky researchers have claimed.
The malware is a functioning botnet written entirely in Java and is capable of infecting computers running Windows, Mac OS X and Linux that have Oracle's Java software framework installed.
Once infected, a computer that has been compromised by the Java based malware - most likely through a malware hosting website - is pulled into a botnet and then controlled to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aga...
