Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 4, 2018

Yahoo Mail users are about to be attacked

The The Register reports that unpatched vulnerabilities in the past two years on Yahoo Mail may have caused users to be hacked and lose control of the mailbox.
Ryan Barnett, director of application security research at security firm Breach Security, says the vulnerability comes from a Web application that automatically logs in to the popular webmail service.
Hackers will take advantage of this vulnerability to launch attacks and take over passwords and gain control over other people's email accounts.
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Other security experts have also confirmed the information and said the findings confirm their longstanding suspicion that application vulnerabilities for end users are a key factor in the success of the software. Increase the number of attacks targeted at social networks or aggregated portals.
The real email accounts hacked are very popular spammers in the process of spreading malicious code because they help the spam through the filter more easily.
Hackers can also use these email accounts to obtain personal information, to access bank accounts or many other types of accounts because many people still have a habit of using a password for many types of accounts. web.
Yahoo said it had discovered the flaw and sought to block it.
According to ICTnews

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