{"id":285,"date":"2006-06-13T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/13\/yahoo-e-mail-hit-by-worm\/"},"modified":"2006-06-13T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T10:53:24","slug":"yahoo-e-mail-hit-by-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/13\/yahoo-e-mail-hit-by-worm\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo e-mail hit by worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yahoo Inc.,<\/strong> the world&#8217;s largest provider of e-mail services, said on Monday that a <strong>software virus aimed at Yahoo Mail users had infected<\/strong> &#8220;a very small fraction&#8221; of its base of more than 200 million accounts.    <\/p>\n<p>The e-mail virus, or worm, has been dubbed <strong>Yamanner <\/strong>and landed in Yahoo mailboxes bearing the headline `<strong>New Graphic Site&#8217;<\/strong>. Once opened, the message infects the computer and spreads to other users listed in address books, security experts said.    <\/p>\n<p>The e-mail containing the virus<strong> need only be opened <\/strong>&#8212; in contrast to most worms that are hidden in attachments and require users to take an additional step &#8212; to release the virus, according to computer security site Symantec Corp. The Sunnyvale, California-based company advised users to update virus and firewall software on their computers and to block any e-mail sent from the address <strong>av3@yahoo.com.<\/strong>   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have taken steps to resolve the issue and protect our users from further attacks of this worm,&#8221; Yahoo spokeswoman Kelley Podboy said in a statement. The worm cannot run on the <strong>newest version of Yahoo Mail Beta<\/strong>,&#8221; Symantec&#8221;s site said.    <\/p>\n<p>The worm exploits a <strong>vulnerability in Javascript technology <\/strong>used to make the mail program easier to use by <strong>triggering embedded HTML scripts<\/strong> to run in the computer user&#8217;s browser. The e-mail addresses are also sent to a <strong>remote online computer server<\/strong>, which may be used to run spam campaigns, experts said. The technical name of the worm goes by <strong>variants of Yamanner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc., the world&#8217;s largest provider of e-mail services, said on Monday that a software virus aimed at Yahoo Mail users had infected &#8220;a very small fraction&#8221; of its base of more than 200 million accounts. The e-mail virus, or worm, has been dubbed Yamanner and landed in Yahoo mailboxes bearing the headline `New Graphic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,11],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-internet","tag-yahoo","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}