Java Bot Software Could Signal New Vector For Malware Authors Flexible programming language offers some advantages for cybercriminals, researchers say ...

Java 18 incubates a vector API, previews pattern matching for switch expressions, adopts UTF-8 as the default character set, includes a simple web server, and more.

"Any web browser that supports Java will become a vulnerability vector if Quicktime is installed," NIST reports. "If Java support is disabled in the browser it can no longer be used for an attack.