Malicious ZIP archives found in the AKP leak on the Wikileaks site

Post by Senji » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 3:29 PM UTC

somenomadicguy wrote: post #71

dmix wrote: post #14

So a spammy email in one of the thousands leaked happened to contained malware? And this is newsworthy why? People here are using this to question Wikileaks integrity but it seems like a minor mistake given the contents of the dump. This has happened before in hacker dumps on a number of occasions but this one isn't even malicious (targeting wikileaks users). I don't open random zips from spam emails on my machine an…

I think this is newsworthy because wikileaks does not maintain the journalistic integrity we expect of them, they never retract their mistakes, nor do they apologize.

Post by amazingman » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 4:02 PM UTC

ryanlol wrote: post #138

krapp wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Going through government email dumps seems like a great way to locate the next stuxnet. Which, if everyone reading these dumps was a researcher looking for the next stuxnet, would be a good point. But by that rationale, we might as well not bother with security anywhere on the internet just to maximize the chance of an interesting infection. The malware should be removed because it's malware, no other rationale is n…

I'm sure the same people who get infected by spam emails on wikileaks are the same people who have already been infected by spam emails in their own inboxes. It really doesn't seem to make much of a difference.