Cryptome Hit By Blackhole Exploit Kit

Posted by Unknown on Monday February 13, 2012 @11:48AM from the leaks-were-sleeping-around dept.

wiredmikey writes with an excerpt from Security Week:"Whistleblower site Cryptome has been hacked and infected by the Blackhole exploit kit. ... Cryptome co-founder John Young however told SecurityWeek that the Cryptome site is in the process of cleaning everything up, and that process should be finished by the end of the day. Founded in 1996, Cryptome publishes thousands of documents, including many related to national security, law enforcement and military. On Feb. 12, a reader advised the site that accessing a file had triggered a warning in their antivirus about the Blackhole exploit kit. ... Subsequent analysis found thousands of files on the site had been infected." Cryptome has certainly seen worse.

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Blackhole by Hatta · 2012-02-13 11:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Symantec says that Blackhole affects "various Windows platforms". Does Cryptome run on Windows?

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mysterious by Moblaster · 2012-02-13 11:56 · Score: 5, Funny

The secret command shows up as a dot (".") on my system.
This may not be enlightening to anyone, but it appears to be a small black hole.
1. Re:mysterious by user+flynn · 2012-02-13 13:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I clicked on the link and I couldn't see anything.
  Since then I've been slowly depressing my back button for what seems like years... to you.
  
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