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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I wonder if he can buy food and pay rent with the “good publicity” that has closed the place.
Really? What’s his name, Liz. I use Twitter.
Do you believe the so called cyberattack did ever happen?
Guess it is better to be polite.
The stupid fake news.
The air is ‘Murcan up.
I didn’t say that...I typed it.
The area is a political conservative bastion. It started with a gay huh.
Could it be that he got a promise of support from a “gay group” and then went full rebel organizer.
It’s their hosting service that’s getting the attack, they should be able to deal with it efficiently. This is probably not done by an ideological actor but one who just took advantage of the increased traffic to their site, and found vulnerabilities.
Bingo
Well, we’ll see.
I don’t know of any owner that wants their business shut down for a week or two.
Yes, God is Great and Beer is Good.
It’s not personal it’s just business. LOL!
“No political bias” FBI should probe into it.
No, someone, taking a cue from the manager herself, thought that it was morally right and had a duty to respond in that fashion.
I think the gay thing was just an excuse the owner thought up at the last moment. She said something along the lines of: My gay staff members were upset because Trump is trying to stop transsexuals from joining the military.
I don’t believe that for a second. The owner wanted Sanders out simply because the owner is a fascist.
But she couldn’t play the race card. (Maybe she doesn’t have any black staff!) So she played the homosexual card instead.
Or a CAT D11T bulldozer.
They’re big and powerful enough to raze the red hen in one pass.
Oh yeah. The lunatics have been growing about how the restaurant is booked through August.
They didn’t like it when I pointed out that they’re fools to think that all those reservations are for real people.
Didnt give his name....only his whining statement.
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