Around 2.5 million users of Yahoo were infected with malicious software after pirates seized a company announcements and use them to attack the Internet . According to the report of the cyber security company Fox IT to rape , some of the ads were viewed by customers from the period of December 30 to January 2 were malware infected. CNET also explains that users who open the pages with ads then were redirected to these sites , malicious programs which are installed on your PC, even if you do not open the ad.
According to an estimate made by Fox IT, about 27,000 customers computers were infected in Yahoo every hour during the period of 4 days.
Based on the traffic sign is estimated that about 300,000 people had visited the malicious site . Whenever distinctive infection rate of 9% , which would result in approximately 27,000 infections per hour .
According to security firm SurfRight , the score was about 2.5 million users in total. Where FoxIT explained that U.S. consumers were probably not vulnerable to this failure.
Based on the same sample , it was reported that more countries were exploited by those who exploit kit are Britain, France and Romania. During this time , it was unclear why all countries are affected may therefore be due to the configuration of the malicious ads on this search engine.
Surprisingly, Yahoo said the minimum for this incident. A statement on Saturday, January 04, to recognize the problem , was issued but offered no detailed explanation of that episode.
According to the information provided by this company takes very seriously the privacy and security of users. Recently, the company has identified an ad , which was designed to spread malicious activities for multiple users of Yahoo . The company eliminated immediately and continued to monitor and block ads that were used for this type of activity.
CNET said the company has offered some more information on Sunday and according to that, on January 3 , the company had fulfilled some ads on its European sites that did not follow the editorial guidelines of the company and , in particular, were malicious . The company eliminated those ads on time. Users in Latin America, North America and Asia Pacific these ads are not offered and as a result , were not affected . Moreover , users of mobile devices and Macs were not affected too.
It's great to hear that the spread of malicious software are not publishing guide Yahoo but generates the level of curiosity what was the real problem and distressed , infected users need to be . Finally , Yahoo updated its statement , adding that malware infections began on December 30, 2013 .
Some details came from SurfRight . This company published an explanation of the types of malware available on the ads, as recognized by Fox IT . SurfRight also added that users were prone to click fraud malware that runs many processes to open web pages with ads affiliate ID property from criminals. Other malware to allow backdoor access on the computers of users and therefore the remote computers, block websites , steel user names and passwords, and many more. The security firm also mostly explained that users with older machines were made .
But that does not mean that every ad of this network comes with malicious iframe , but the computer that has an old version of Java Runtime and if the user uses the Yahoo mail there for the past 6 days, then the equipment may be impaired . In addition, reports also revealed that the malware also spread through advertisements in Yahoo messenger . Therefore, it is advisable to scan your computer for malware if you are using any of the services of Yahoo .
Not the first time that this company is in the limelight for shoddy security . Yahoo Back in November it was reported to be one of those kept under surveillance by the NSA , having previously reported that the company refused to federal requests for user data . But Yahoo is not the only company , Twitter and Google was also hacked by botnets in recent times Facebook was accused of checking private messages from readers and Hulu was accused of distributing the information to Facebook . So, welcome to this new normal.
According to an estimate made by Fox IT, about 27,000 customers computers were infected in Yahoo every hour during the period of 4 days.
Based on the traffic sign is estimated that about 300,000 people had visited the malicious site . Whenever distinctive infection rate of 9% , which would result in approximately 27,000 infections per hour .
According to security firm SurfRight , the score was about 2.5 million users in total. Where FoxIT explained that U.S. consumers were probably not vulnerable to this failure.
Based on the same sample , it was reported that more countries were exploited by those who exploit kit are Britain, France and Romania. During this time , it was unclear why all countries are affected may therefore be due to the configuration of the malicious ads on this search engine.
Surprisingly, Yahoo said the minimum for this incident. A statement on Saturday, January 04, to recognize the problem , was issued but offered no detailed explanation of that episode.
According to the information provided by this company takes very seriously the privacy and security of users. Recently, the company has identified an ad , which was designed to spread malicious activities for multiple users of Yahoo . The company eliminated immediately and continued to monitor and block ads that were used for this type of activity.
CNET said the company has offered some more information on Sunday and according to that, on January 3 , the company had fulfilled some ads on its European sites that did not follow the editorial guidelines of the company and , in particular, were malicious . The company eliminated those ads on time. Users in Latin America, North America and Asia Pacific these ads are not offered and as a result , were not affected . Moreover , users of mobile devices and Macs were not affected too.
It's great to hear that the spread of malicious software are not publishing guide Yahoo but generates the level of curiosity what was the real problem and distressed , infected users need to be . Finally , Yahoo updated its statement , adding that malware infections began on December 30, 2013 .
Some details came from SurfRight . This company published an explanation of the types of malware available on the ads, as recognized by Fox IT . SurfRight also added that users were prone to click fraud malware that runs many processes to open web pages with ads affiliate ID property from criminals. Other malware to allow backdoor access on the computers of users and therefore the remote computers, block websites , steel user names and passwords, and many more. The security firm also mostly explained that users with older machines were made .
But that does not mean that every ad of this network comes with malicious iframe , but the computer that has an old version of Java Runtime and if the user uses the Yahoo mail there for the past 6 days, then the equipment may be impaired . In addition, reports also revealed that the malware also spread through advertisements in Yahoo messenger . Therefore, it is advisable to scan your computer for malware if you are using any of the services of Yahoo .
Not the first time that this company is in the limelight for shoddy security . Yahoo Back in November it was reported to be one of those kept under surveillance by the NSA , having previously reported that the company refused to federal requests for user data . But Yahoo is not the only company , Twitter and Google was also hacked by botnets in recent times Facebook was accused of checking private messages from readers and Hulu was accused of distributing the information to Facebook . So, welcome to this new normal.
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