WikiLeaks uploads 300+ pieces of malware among email dumps

The Register ^ | 19 Aug 2016 at 07:02 | Darren Pauli

[snarkpup]

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.

[snarkpup]

I trust attachments in strange emails that have been leaked about as much as I trust attachments in strange emails I receive myself, which is not at all.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Assuming the malware came from the Emails. Democrats computers are as corrupted as they are.

[HarleyLady27]

I have three different virus protectors on my computer, and mal ware, and everything else, not one wikileak that I have opened and read has set anything off...

So it must be just for the government computers and making it easier for them to hack into...

[snarkpup]

Are you opening attachments (like pdf or docx files), or just reading the main body of the emails (which, I believe, they only present in plain text mode and which is safe)?

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Now now there is no PROOF that Hillary’s emails were hacked.

[wally_bert]

A linux live distro running as live only might be best.

[Larry Lucido]

Every time I get a e-mail titled “Invoice” even though I didn’t order anything, or “your report” even though I’m not expecting a report, I always open the attachment just in case it’s something important. /s

[zeebee]

Open them on a Mac and there will be no problems.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Booby trapped info?

[Revel]

“Open them on a Mac and there will be no problems.”

That is so yesterday.

There have been many stories of late of macs getting viruses.

[zeebee]

There have been many stories of late of macs getting viruses.

link please?

[Revel]

For one

http://time.com/4249413/apple-mac-ransomware-hack/

[zeebee]

I wouldn’t call that a Mac virus:

“... anyone who downloaded the Transmission installer between 11 a.m. PT on March 4 and 7 p.m. PT on March 5 may be at risk...”

“Apple has taken steps to make it impossible to install the affected app. Transmission’s developers have issued an update to address the issue as well.

The discovery is particularly noteworthy because Apple’s desktop operating system isn’t usually susceptible to such attacks. The only previously reported Mac ransomware dates back to 2014, but Palo Alto Networks says it was “incomplete” at the time of discovery.”