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Yahoo Malware Turned PCs Into Bitcoin Miners
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10th January 2014, 08:43
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Yahoo Malware Turned PCs Into Bitcoin Miners Here's a follow-up to that story about Yahoo ads infecting peoples computers with malware. Researchers at security firm Light Cyber revealed this week that one of the malware programs aimed to use the resources of infected PCs to perform the calculations necessary to run a Bitcoin network. Revealed earlier this month by fellow security firm Fox IT, the campaign spread its package by using Yahoo's ad server to deploy malicious ads. The malware took advantage of vulnerabilities in Java to install itself on computers that visited the ads.yahoo.com site. http://www.hardocp.com/news/2014/01/...itcoin_miners/ |
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