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Hundreds of thousands of Yahoo.com users hit with malware

article published on 5 January, 2014

Yahoo has confirmed that their advertising servers had been hijacked allowing malware to be distributed to hundreds of thousands of users. Two security firms first brought the situation to light, including Fox IT, who wrote: "Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements served by ads.yahoo.com. Some of the advertisements are malicious." The regular ads were replaced with an "exploit ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub
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_ 		5. January 2014 @ 21:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Best argument for AdBlock+ I have ever seen. No ad, no malware.
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ivymike
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_ 		5. January 2014 @ 22:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This doesn't surprise me....It IS Yahoo after all.
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Bozobub
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_ 		5. January 2014 @ 22:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've had Google-sponsored ads attempt to ply me with malware in the past; in fact, that's why I use AdBlock+ now. It's not just a "Yahoo thing".
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dp70
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_ 		6. January 2014 @ 01:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yahoo is the leading supplier of spam for my e-mail account. They enable Canada to peddle Rx meds, and all the scammers who want to F*** me, saying they saw my picture or profile on a social site.
Really farcical, as I have never used the web sites alleged.
Easy to judge the character of Yahoo, by the company they keep.
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molsen
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_ 		6. January 2014 @ 06:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I guess this is Yahoo's new business model........
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rulisky
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_ 		6. January 2014 @ 10:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Pay attention to what you are intending to do.

Do NOT click on random crap !!!
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Bozobub
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_ 		6. January 2014 @ 12:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by rulisky:
 Pay attention to what you are intending to do.

Do NOT click on random crap !!!
It wasn't about clicking on anything at all. Malware in a banner ad can attempt to infect you with no action on your part at all.
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