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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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WikiLeaks is Hosting 324 Confirmed Instances of Malware Among its Caches of Dumped Emails
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:10PM
I don't see attention grabbing necessarily as a negative thing, but at this point, I'm beginning to wonder what smoking gun they could possibly have. Clinton is the nominee now, so that damage's been done. We know about the classified stuff on the private server. We know about the DNC corruption. It wasn't enough. Could have released it then and had a slam-dunk for the D team with Sanders as the nominee.
Even looking past the obvious disinformation and propaganda, an October surprise would have to be one helluva leak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @07:32AM
Probably not. The owners of the country want one of their candidates, and on the D side, that is Hillary. They would be counting on the population forgetting quickly (i.e. before the election), and they would likely be right. And even if the leak did manage to move a few percent, that would just move it to Trump, another candidate from the rich.
Wikileaks are either trying to keep the talk going, to make it seem like more than it is, or they have something they hope will move enough votes to hurt both parties enough that we will see real change. Personally, I'm guessing it's the former, to see real change would take a huge scandal.