It's the holy grail of malware: A truly cross-platform bot that can run on any system. Well, almost any. Kaspersky Lab has come across a functioning bot written entirely in Java, and which works on ...

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed a malicious Java application that turned out to be a cross-platform bot used for DDoS attacks. Java-related security issues have remained relatively quiet ...

The multi-talented bot, which can carry out DDoS via either HTTP or UDP flood attacks, was discovered by Zoltan Balazs, CTO at MRG Effitas, and shared with Kaspersky Lab for analysis. The firm ...

Botnets have been all over the news in recent weeks, as have Java-related security issues. So it’s not surprising really that someone’s been busy building a botnet by exploiting one of the numerous ...