Certain advertisements on Yahoo's European website may have helped infect thousands of computers with malware, according to Yahoo. A Dutch computer security firm, Fox-IT, outed Yahoo last Friday, penning a blog post claiming that attackers had used ads.yahoo.com to insert malicious ads. Fox-IT was apparently on to something, because on Sunday, Yahoo admitted to hosting ads that didn't "meet out editorial guidelines" -- a nice way of saying the ads spread malware. Mac computers and mobile devices were reportedly insulated from the malware.Malicious Ads Infect Thousands of European Yahoo Users
Certain advertisements on Yahoo's European website may have helped infect thousands of computers with malware, according to Yahoo. A Dutch computer security firm, Fox-IT, outed Yahoo last Friday, penning a blog post claiming that attackers had used ads.yahoo.com to insert malicious ads. Fox-IT was apparently on to something, because on Sunday, Yahoo admitted to hosting ads that didn't "meet out editorial guidelines" -- a nice way of saying the ads spread malware. Mac computers and mobile devices were reportedly insulated from the malware.
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