Yahoo Infects 2 Million European PCs with Bitcoin Malware
For four days last week Yahoo's European servers were the equivalent of a cyber Typhoid Mary, spreading disease to anyone who came near. Yahoo was the victim of a major security breach, which caused its servers to send out millions of malware-laden ads to an estimated two million European users. Suspicions were first raised by Dutch security outfit Fox IT, which estimated that Yahoo's servers were responsible for 27,000 malware infections every hour the malware was live on Yahoo's website. Yahoo confirmed the embarrassing attack in a statement: "From December 31 to January 3 on our....
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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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Cryptocurrency mining malware for PC platforms has been around for a while, but now it has gone mobile, specifically via the Android OS. A team of security researchers from Trend Micro has managed to identify two apps that can use your Android device to mine litecoin and dogecoin. The apps in question are called Songs and Prized, and both are available from the Google Play Store. Songs has between one and five million downloads so far, while Prized has 10,000 to 50,000 downloads. This is not the first case of mining malware targeting new and unusual platforms. Linux recently got what was....