Worm targets Yahoo! mail
09:46 - Tuesday 13 June 2006 by THG Reporting Team
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: yahoo, mail, worm Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: yahoo, mail, worm Category : Miscellaneous
Yahoo ! on Monday has repaired a vulnerability in its email service that allowed a worm to harvest email addresses from a user accounts and further spread itself.
The JS/Yamanner worm automatically executes when a user opens the message in the Yahoo Mail service. It uses JavaScript to exploit a flaw that until today was unpatched. Yahoo later on Monday fixed the vulnerability.
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