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Light Cyber security investigation institutions said in a report this week, last week, use Yahoo advertising services began figurines are obviously trying to spread malicious software by creating a botnet in order to achieve the objective themselves enhance bitcoin mining performance.

Netherlands online security company Fox IT found last week hackers code using Java vulnerability, and Yahoo's advertising server to spread malware . Light Cyber investigation agencies and security in the subsequent analysis of these malware, and found an infected computer in order to take advantage of performance in order to achieve the objective of more coins.

Yahoo said in a statement on Saturday, it clears all the content that contains malicious code. But the company is not on the infected computer's specific situation and solution to reveal any details.

According to the safety agency says Surfright, if a user's computer has been running earlier versions of the Java Runtime, and visited Yahoo Web site in the past 6 days, then the computer is very likely to have been infected.

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安全调查机构Light Cyber本周发布报告称，上周利用雅虎广告服务散播恶意软件的始俑者显然是想通过建立一个僵尸网络，以达到自己增强比特币挖矿性能的目的。

荷兰在线安全公司Fox IT在上周发现有黑客利用Java代码漏洞和雅虎广告服务器来散播恶意软件。而安全调查机构Light Cyber在随后对这些恶意软件进行了分析，并发现其中有一个旨在利用受感染电脑的计算性能，以达到挖掘更多比特币的目的。

雅虎在上周六发表声明称，已清除所有包含恶意代码的广告内容。然而公司并未就受感染电脑的具体情况和解决方法透露任何细节。

据安全机构Surfright表示，如果某用户的电脑一直在运行较早期版本的Java Runtime，且在过去6天里访问过雅虎网站，那么该名电脑则很可能已受到感染。