Yahoo's top websites fell victim to a “malvertising” attack within the company's ad network, although Yahoo will not reveal the number of people who may have been affected. Hackers exploited, Adobe Flash software to conduct the attack. Malware was spread through Yahoo's ads for a week, according to a senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, the security firm that first learned of the attack. More than 100 million people visit Yahoo's new sites per month. Yahoo said it has curbed the attack that began on July 28.
“As soon as we learned of this issue, our team took action to block this advertiser from our network,” a Yahoo spokesperson said in a statement.
Jérôme Segura, a senior security researcher at Malwarebytes, said hackers used a bug in Adobe Flash, which streams audio and video.
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INC News, 04/08/2015 - via RT
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