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mouser:
Ouch.  Be careful out there!

A malware attack hit Yahoo's advertising server over the last few days, affecting thousands of users in various countries, an Internet security firm said.

In a blog post, Fox-IT said Yahoo's servers were releasing an "exploit kit" that exploited vulnerabilities in Java and installed malware.

"Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements served by ads.yahoo.com," the internet security firm said. "Some of the advertisements are malicious."

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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/05/tech/yahoo-malware-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t2





The slashdot thread on this episode is here: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/01/05/1444217/yahoo-advertising-serves-up-malware-for-thousands


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bit:
Thankfully I do not normally use yahoo except as an alternative backup, and have not visited it since a little before this was reported.
And I shouldn't need it before they fix this.
Tnx for the update.

TaoPhoenix:

Well, for a little meta humor, let's try this search link:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Yahoo+users+get+hit+by+malware&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35

I do raw yahoo searches out of the Firefox search window, so I'm not sure if that might have avoided the malware even at the theoretical level. But whatever little was left, I am presuming adblock goes  a long way to mitigate.

tomos:
Well, for a little meta humor, let's try this search link:

[link removed]

I do raw yahoo searches out of the Firefox search window, so I'm not sure if that might have avoided the malware even at the theoretical level. But whatever little was left, I am presuming adblock goes  a long way to mitigate.-TaoPhoenix (January 05, 2014, 03:51 PM)
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I dont understand - why get us to search with yahoo now ???!!! (I didnt click the link :tellme:)

TaoPhoenix:
I dont understand - why get us to search with yahoo now ???!!! (I didnt click the link :tellme:)
-tomos (January 05, 2014, 04:01 PM)
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Hence the meta humor. Making Yahoo report its own security breach!  ;)

But it was an open question to anyone who studied the breach if the ads were only served on the master page of yahoo.com, I wouldn't have seen them with a browser search.

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