Yahoo! Servers Hacked Using Shellshock Flaw, Company Claims No Data Stolen
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Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
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As the news of first online murder likely to happen by year-end is making rounds of the internet, in another news the internet giant Yahoo! announced that three of its servers were hacked by Romanian hackers. It is strongly believed that hackers succeeded in breaching the security of servers by exploiting the shellshock security hole. Yahoo is one of the major companies to publicly disclose the shellshock related vulnerability. However, the company has also claimed that the officials have not found any evidence regarding the loss or manipulation of users’ data.
A report by the President of Future Technologies, Jonathan Hall also said that WinZip-a file compress tool and Lycos-a search engine was also susceptible to similar shellshock bug. Shellshock also described as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, enables hackers to run malicious code on the bash shell which is used to provide commands to the system. This vulnerability is potentially used to gain the control of the system or to steal data. Hall was the first one to identify this issue and was then contacted to respective companies. Later, Yahoo! and WinZip responded whereas Lycos has denied the breach.
Yahoo! had announced that the company had successfully isolated the handful of safe servers and assured that no data has been affected by the attack. According to Hall, the FBI has also been informed about the cyber-attack and the officials have taken the information and went their way. Further investigations are in progress.
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A report by the President of Future Technologies, Jonathan Hall also said that WinZip-a file compress tool and Lycos-a search engine was also susceptible to similar shellshock bug. Shellshock also described as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, enables hackers to run malicious code on the bash shell which is used to provide commands to the system. This vulnerability is potentially used to gain the control of the system or to steal data. Hall was the first one to identify this issue and was then contacted to respective companies. Later, Yahoo! and WinZip responded whereas Lycos has denied the breach.
Yahoo! had announced that the company had successfully isolated the handful of safe servers and assured that no data has been affected by the attack. According to Hall, the FBI has also been informed about the cyber-attack and the officials have taken the information and went their way. Further investigations are in progress.
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