#2014_BREAKDOWN

The year 2014 is about to fall and here at biznerati wish to take a glimpse of events that culminated in the year.Biznerati is today starting a series of #2014_breakdown.A segment looking at all the events(posts) that made it big in the year.Topping the list on #2014_breakdown is the INFAMOUS YAHOO MALWARE.It almost broke the internet.It all started with:

"There have been reports going round about a thousands of yahoo users being hit by a malware after clicking on the yahoo ads.The malware that found its way in the yahoo ad servers is said to have started on 20th december 2013.
How could the malware find its
way to the ad servers?

.Well,Maybe the yahoo ad team could have been sent a normal ad just like other ads by advertisers .The 'normal ad' might have had the malware in it.
The other question is:
How did the malware manage to escape the filtering stage where ads presented are filtered for
malware?
Or maybe the ad system servers
were hacked and the hackers did what they are best at.
However the yahoo spokeswoman in a statement released on friday stated that
they value users privacy and have identified
some of the ads and have deleted and blocked
the ads.The person involved in the attack is
still unknown. READ MORE

.Yahoo staff is
deleting and blocking the poisoned ads.It will
take time to clear them out of the ad server
system.Yahoo takes the users privacy much
more serious and thats why they are blocking
the malware.If you are a mobile user or Mac
apple then you survived the attack .See more
info at <<>>

AFTERMATH OF YAHOO MALWARE
ATTACK:THE RISE OF BITCOIN AND OTHER MALWARES
It is emerging that not only did the Cybercriminals install Bitcoin malware but Also other dangerous malwares such as zeuS
and andromeda.Zeus is designed to steal bank information of the victim.It attempts to steal
personal banking information.Hackers can now control the
infected PCs.I suspect that
bitcoin cybercriminals are behind all these because the PC s have been turned to mine
fields with the criminals mining more bitcoins which will see the value spring up.There is
also adjacking which prompts the user’s browser to click on the ad links milking money from that.

For how long have the users
been affected unknowingly?How did the ads manage to get into the system?Did yahoo team
up with the crooks?Too many questíons few
answers.
Its a wrap.That was the end of #2014_breakdown segment.No 1 on the list is done.This is the beginning of the series.NB:This will be done till 31st December 2014.

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