Facebook recently discovered a zero-day java attack roaming the internet which it happened to be one of the targets. According to Facebook officials, this attack was discovered on victimized computers belonging to Facebook engineers. The zero-day java attack was designed to download and installed a collection of unseen malware programs in victimized computers but was deciphered when a suspicious domain was found in Facebookâs Domain Name Server request log.
The perpetrators of this attack injected the code on the HTML of popular Mobile Developer web forum which tends to victimize any visitor that has java enabled on their browser.