06 January 2014

Thousands Of Yahoo.com Visitors May Be Infected With Malware



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Yahoo has been on a roll after Marissa Mayer took over, redesigning Yahoo Mail and giving 1TB of storage on Flickr. But not everything is well. A Dutch security firm has reported that users who visited Yahoo in the last week may be infected with malware. The malware is served through an advert made available through the ads.yahoo.com network. It exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a host of different malware, says security firm Fox IT. It estimates the reach of the attack as follows: Based on a sample of traffic we estimate the number of visits to the malicious...


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