Are the ads still infecting computers?
Are the ads still infecting computers? This was posted before but nothing has been done about it since Aug 2018 and this is a serious issue. I want to know is it safe to even go to the yahoo email? Something this serious should be addressed and let people know if it is safe now or where this stands!
MAJOR SECURITY THREAT on mail.yahoo.com
You have a security exploit on the mail.yahoo.com website. It is in the ad-generator portion of the page, which you lease/sell to third party vendors. The ad vendors are able to place malware into the ad code, so during an ad refresh on the page, it redirects the whole page to a malware/"click here to close"/virus website. THIS IS A MAJOR SECURITY THREAT. it tracks across 4 browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) and 3 operating systems. The flaw is in mail.yahoo.com...not the end-user. You can fix this in server side/client side coding if you have a good coder who puts sniffers in the ad streaming between the web user and the ad ware streaming service to block popup code and redirect code. Please fix it. others are claiming non-secure rebrand of mail.yahoo.com. watch for malware on the yahoo servers themselves.
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Richard Jensen PE shared this idea · Aug 10, 2018
The above was a report where Yahoo Admin asked "Can you provide the link to the ad that is using malware?" It has been long enough and I am wondering wast his solved or are people still at risk all these months later (Almost March 2019)?
Someone gave one of the culprit links here (I have put xx in the protocol as quotation marks as someone else did does not make it unclickable).:
hxxp://gbk2281.website/ln/mggYr6oxW3AhxZRAXJoTFQxjVoGl645RLZaxGX02cQMMWPvHsYWvNtKR88NcKWy5iqzv9TwhUUbL.mkJhP9PZbpaDs4OPFTsUh7XB8SicmTfDZG9pQzoonEzNQfC6zM9cOOEx49PSzRBKFHxLGY4DW2An5bDO9UWnnMwOYi.CpIzFD5XzB9zapdS9jMiY6jaXIinko9XfiSUH92ey8zuSu5Tdh.7OIPKgLcYeRZ8QxX6hMiOxuA9s8LTswJMAQjtxH6VKRa6pDNoyuKYRH30xUpzAaaxWQNIbyBEQJDLWscIru7uP.QvtSrrMJCTJrHFKCJDGod65Ppbx2CwXMnAeeDHKR46ndtepqSI2wJIKQL5ah8IVTmIla
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