European Yahoo Sites Infect Scores of PCs With Bitcoin Mining Malware
Here's a flub of epic proportions. Yahoo! has confirmed a malware attack affecting visitors of their European web properties from the 31st of December through the 3rd of January. The attacked happened via the advertisements the sites were displaying. They were embedded with malware, spreading like plague from where they were displayed to the end user's machine (Mac computers and mobile devices excluded). From December 31 to January 3 on our European sites, we served some advertisements that did not meet our editorial guidelines - specifically, they spread malware. It is approximated by FOX....
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