A deeper look by Cisco Systems into the cyberattack that infected Yahoo users with malware seems to point out a link between the attack and a suspicious affiliate traffic-pushing theme with roots in Ukraine.
Yahoo aforementioned on Sunday that European users were served malicious advertisements, or “malvertisements,” between Dec. thirty one and last Saturday. If clicked, the advertisements directed users to websites that attempted to put in malicious package.
Cisco discovered that the malicious websites victims landed on ar coupled to many others that are utilized in current cyberattacks, aforementioned Jaeson Schultz, a threat analysis engineer.
Schultz checked out domains hosted inside an oversized science block that researchers discovered Yahoo victims were redirected to, finding 393 others that matched a pattern. Continue reading “Yahoo malvertising attack linked to larger malware scheme”