14 June 2006

New Worm Targets Yahoo! Mail

A new worm, dubbed the "Yamanner worm" that exploits a Javascript vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail, has been detected by Yahoo!

As New Worm Targets Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! said a very small fraction of its base of over 200 million accounts is infected by the worm. While security firms such as Trend Micro and McAfee rated the virus as having a low threat level, Symantec called it an "elevated threat".

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