Apple Insider reports that researchers announced on Monday that hackers are taking advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's Java 7, with the newly discovered flaw able to exploit any platform, including Apple's OS X.
Mac users running older versions of OS X, like Snow Leopard or Leopard, could be more vulnerable as those operating systems came bundled with Java, however the new exploit is actually in Oracle's latest software, dubbed "Update 6."New Java vulnerability affects Macs, could lead to more malware
"The vulnerability is not in Java 6, it's in new functionality in Java 7," said Beardsley.
He went on to call the bug "super dangerous" and said a potential piece of malware can feasibly compromise the security of a Mac by simply having a user visit a website that is host to the attack code. This means both purpose-built malicious sites as well as those which have been hacked can compromise a system.
