Java and Flash vulnerabilities being exploited by cyber-spies

Cyber-spies have planted Java- and Flash-exploiting malware on web sites focused on human rights, defence and foreign policy. Over the last two weeks, the Shadowserver Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks internet threats, has discovered several such compromised web pages 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.