Malicious ads published through Yahoo’s ad network delivered malware to thousands of sites visitors, according to reporter at Fox-IT, but Yahoo subsequently blocked that attack.
Fox-IT’s post said that visitors who view the ads in their PC were redirected to a Magnitude exploit kit.This exploit use vulnerabilities in Java and installs a host of different malware, I.T Experts said, ZeuS, Andromeda, and other famous ad-clicking malwares,Tinba and Necurs. The security company’s investigation told that start of that attack is on December 30 but it might have begun earlier.
Yahoo confirmed the infection news and said they had removed. Yahoo told, we take the safety and privacy of our users as our first priority. We recently identified an ad service to spread malware to some of our users. We removed that malware and we will check and block any ads being used for this type of activity activity, a reporter said via email.
Using a sample of traffic and a infection rate of 9 %, Security researcher said that the malware infected about 27,000 user every hour. The most affected countries were U.K. ,France and Romania.
Fox-IT’s post said that visitors who view the ads in their PC were redirected to a Magnitude exploit kit.This exploit use vulnerabilities in Java and installs a host of different malware, I.T Experts said, ZeuS, Andromeda, and other famous ad-clicking malwares,Tinba and Necurs. The security company’s investigation told that start of that attack is on December 30 but it might have begun earlier.
Yahoo confirmed the infection news and said they had removed. Yahoo told, we take the safety and privacy of our users as our first priority. We recently identified an ad service to spread malware to some of our users. We removed that malware and we will check and block any ads being used for this type of activity activity, a reporter said via email.
Using a sample of traffic and a infection rate of 9 %, Security researcher said that the malware infected about 27,000 user every hour. The most affected countries were U.K. ,France and Romania.
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