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WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails

posted by takyon on Monday August 22 2016, @01:02PM   
from the dump-for-the-chumps dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following malware:

WikiLeaks is hosting 324 confirmed instances of malware among its caches of dumped emails, a top Bulgarian anti-malware veteran says. Random checks of reported malware hashes find the trojans are flagged as malware by Virus Total's static analysis checks.

Much of the malware appear to be attachments emailed by black hats in a bid to compromise the various parties affected in the WikiLeaks dumps.

Dr Vesselin Bontchev (@bontchev) says the instances of malware are only those confirmed and found in an initial search effort. [...] "The list is by no means exhaustive; I am just starting with the analysis," Bontchev says.

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• Obvious response from Powers That Be (Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday August 22 2016, @02:15PM

  by Thexalon (636) on Monday August 22 2016, @02:15PM (#391632)

  Clearly, nobody should be looking at anything Wikileaks publishes. After all, it contains malware created by Russian hackers who hate America. Simply visiting their site is a recipe for becoming the victim of horrible cyberterrorism.

  Never mind the fact that it reveals wrongdoing and in some cases criminal acts at the highest levels of government.

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  The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.

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