This Ars Technica post indicates that you Mac may have picked up a trojan. Evidently this may be one of the reasons you were notified of a java update a few days ago.
I ran the test on one machine to check it out. The responses the terminal commands generated came back to indicate no problems. If you are concerned about this issue or even running the check, you might do a little looking around to see what you think.
P.S. – Since my original post, another way to check for this problem has surfaced. My link here is to the recommendation from MacWorld. I have not downloaded and try this app.
Apple has recognized this problem
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