Posted on 01/08/2015 4:58:00 PM PST by PROCON
This past week, The Huffington Post and several major websites displayed malware-laced advertisements that infected computers and locked them down.
The cyberattack and extortion campaign was discovered by researchers at cybersecurity firm Cyphort. The hackers are demanding money to unlock computers infected with their malware.
It's unclear how many computers were infected. The attack appears to have only affected people running Windows PCs using outdated browsers, including Internet Explorer 8 -- the most-used version of Microsoft's IE browser. Modern, updated browsers such as Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome and Mozilla's latest version of Firefox were not susceptible to the malware.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
Crap :o i use firefox newest version so im hopefully safe will scan my entire system though just in case
thank you
Ransomware. Nothing new. A number of variants were in circulation last year.
It’s not (necessarily) about Firefox, or Chrome for that matter. Typically exploited is Java that runs in your browser.
LOL
Did you visit Huffpo last week and are now too embarrassed to report that pesky burning sensation and smelly discharge?
Well there is hope..
I’ll bet there are Obama voters who fall for that every time.
Who would want to attack a liberal website? Sounds like an inside job? Much like moslems look for someone to blame. If Conservatives can be blamed it will certainly happen.
Whew! I’m safe. Never been to the stupid site.
Oldplayer
If I suspected it, I’d just laugh and revert to a snapshot.
Over and done within two minutes. The digital thugs just take advantage of the ignorance of most people. With the available options now, there’s no excuse for something like this harming anyone. I would ONLY go online from a VM these days. Back up any valuable data to a network location.
I never go there; it’d be like visiting DU.
I woke up this morning feeling somewhat nauseous.
I watched some Ransomware videos on youtube last week and a few used Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 to boot from and clean up their computer
Someone here posted a link to Huffpo the other day and I went there to check out more about the author, as the article had some merit. Yikes. I was on Chrome so hope nothing happened.
“Did you visit HuffPo last week?”
Nope.
Never.
I never visit Huffin’Blow or DU... If I wanted a “insider’s view”, I would sooner be the jizmopper at one of the XXX theaters on 42nd Street (that will be back faster than you can say “Warren Wilhelm Jr.”).
"evidences??"
;-)
(Just to be kind, I sent the article to several lieberals who love to quote from Huffpot.. Of course, I recommended that they ignore the info since I found it here, and you know how rabid FReepers are. ;-)
Every virus, malware, ransomware can be removed.
With the exception of being encrypted remotely.
That cannot be undone, by a home user.
Visit bleeping for great tools, advice and help IF you get bit.
CryptoGuard prevents your files from being taken hostage - Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware Software
Just desserts for visitors to HuffPo.
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