Microsoft warns for exponential rise in Java exploits

What I discovered was that some of our exploit "malware" families were telling a scary story - an unprecedented wave of Java exploitation. In fact, by the beginning of this year, the number of Java exploits (and by that I mean attacks on vulnerable Java code, not attacks using JavaScript) had well surpassed the total number of Adobe-related exploits we monitored. See chart below for details:

The Java spike in Q3 is primarily driven by attacks on three vulnerabilities, which all, by the way, have had patches available for them for some time now.