Yahoo ad malware hijacked computers for Bitcoin mining

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http://bgr.com/2014/01/09/yahoo-malware-bitcoin-mining/A few days before CES 2014, security researchers discovered that Yahoo was unknowingly distributing malware via the ads displayed on its home page, with as many as 2 million European users at risk of having been infected in the four days hackers exploited holes in the company’s Java-based ad network. Some of the affected computers were transformed into improvised Bitcoin miners to gather the cryptocurrency for the hackers responsible. Yahoo was not very forthcoming about the issue, and it only offered limited details about the attack, without specifying how many users were infected or helping any of them deal with the matter, The Guardian reports.

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