Shortly thereafter, developers started deploying Java web apps and Enterprise JavaBeans together as Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications, so we needed a third format for packaging ...

Dubbed “Tycoon,” the ransomware is uniquely Java-based and targets both Windows and Linux systems. Believed to have been first used in December, Tycoon leverages an obscure Java image format ...

Security researchers have discovered a new kind of ransomware that uses a little-known Java file format to make it more difficult to detect before it detonates its file-encrypting payload.