By
Alex Greig
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Visitors to Yahoo.com over the past week may have been affected by malware coming from the site’s ads.
According to online security firm Fox IT based in the Netherlands, users who clicked on ads from the site were redirected to sites that exploited vulnerabilities in Java and installed a host of different malware.
‘Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements served by ads.yahoo.com,’ the internet security firm posted on its blog. ‘Some of the advertisements are malicious.’
Homepage: Yahoo users may have been affected by malware
Malicious intent: The malware affected tens of thousands of computers per hour
Fox IT estimates tens of thousands of users were affected per hour.
‘Given a typical infection rate of 9%, this would result in around 27,000 infections every hour,’ the company said.
‘Based on the same sample, the countries most affected by the exploit kit are Romania, Great Britain and France. At this time it’s unclear why those countries are most