Malware Attack 2.5 Million Yahoo Users in Europe

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According to the company first learned of the attack, Fox IT, cyber criminals exploit ads.yahoo.com since December 30,2013. Yahoo has been cleaning up the malware attack on January 3.

Yahoo said the only users of the affected European malware attacks. In detail, Fox - IT said most malware infections detected in Romanian, English, and French.

Malware Attack 2.5 Million Yahoo Users in Europe

Furthermore, according to the researchers from HitmanPro report, approximately 2.5 million computers have been infected with the malware attacks.

The malware spreads when visitors click on the banner ads that have been attached malware on Yahoo.com, then automatically malicious programs to attack vulnerabilities in Java applications and deploy different variants of malware to victim computers.

"The method for distributing malware certain very popular among cyber criminals because an attacker could target all visitors a well-known sites, such as Yahoo , the number of victims in accordance with the traffic, "said Chief Security Strategist Bitdefender, Catalin Cosoi.

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