In Yahoo mail system detected a serious vulnerability

Following the resonance break-ins The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Twitter, Yahoo company admitted that its mail service could also be compromised, and compromised accounts used to send spam. It is difficult to say whether the previous break-ins and burglary Yahoo are related, but the purpose of the last break, seems to differ from previously committed burglaries.

According to antivirus company Bitdefender, in the case of Yahoo, hackers used a number of vulnerabilities in security software and Yahoo mail service intercepted session files-cookie, allowing them to take control of the user interface and send spam through it, also using the system to reduce reference bit. ly. Initially, the campaign was focused on western users, as it was used only in the style of writing fraudulent posts news website MSNBC, after fraudsters were being sent for such traditional campaign proposals on domestic earnings over the internet.