Posted on 06/29/2018 7:11:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Having your business suddenly in the political spotlight can have several adverse consequences, including gaining the attention of online fraudsters.
The Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virgina, which recently made news refusing to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is being targeted in a cyberattack according to a researcher. The scammers have apparently taken over parts of the Red Hen's website in order to use its sudden popularity to drive traffic to their own web sites, which sell things like discount Viagra.
The scammers likely weren’t trying to take a political stand, and instead hoped to capitalize on heightened internet traffic to the website because of the headlines, said Chris Boyd, lead malware intelligence analyst at security software company Malwarebytes, who wrote a blog post about what he found on the site. Even so, Boyd suggested that users might want to stay away from the site, as the compromise could mean the site is open to other kinds of attacks that could harm end-users.
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A call to the Red Hen was not immediately returned. Boyd recommended avoiding a visit to the website until it’s fixed. “Generally speaking, any website that has been compromised runs the risk of getting turned into an infection portal,” he said.
How appropriate. What with the people they had working there, that restaurant is an infection site physically and cybernetically.
Darn Russians!
Aren’t you Russian to judgment?
Macedonians, no doubt.
L
Mueller and his band of Clintoon Shysters need to get on this right away. They aren’t doing anything right now anyway.
What goes around, comes around.
The Red Hen is now a cooked (over done too) hen....stick a fork in it...it’s finished.
An attack would be taking the site down, damaging equipment, or placing malware on the site.
The site was hacked. That’s all so far as they know now.
It was not attacked that they know of.
Maybe others agree with the “attack” terminology. I just don’t see it that way.
SUCK IT UP, BUTTERCUP.
Nobody dragged you kicking and screaming into the political arena. You did that to yourselves.
Such hack’s are annoying, but it’s a quick fix - change the password to something more secure than “redhen1” and re-upload the files. It’s a restaurant site. Can’t be that hard.
I don’t like what the red hen did but I really hate these kinds of cyberattacks no matter who it is.
Hit by a cyberattack?
I was hoping to read ‘Wrecking Ball’.
After hours, of course.
Red Hen - now offering discount Viagra!
People are crazy.
Tee Hee!
“The hits just keep coming.”
(Sorry for the metaphor.)
“...change the password to something more secure than “redhen1” “
Or “Hillary2016”.
I agree. I’m sure they have the original web pages.
They can put them up and be ready to go in under 30 minutes.
It will be annoying to have to do so, but it’s not that big a deal.
I’m wondering if they’ll ever re-open.
Ha......
Well done, Russians!
One of the homo servers who alerted Wilkerson to Sarah’s presence is now saying all of it is good publicity for them.
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