Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs (www.404media.co)
from tonytins@pawb.social to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 12 Dec 05:16
https://pawb.social/post/36294888

Dozens of government and university websites belonging to cities, towns, and public agencies across the country are hosting PDFs promoting AI porn apps, porn sites, and cryptocurrency scams; dozens more have been hit with a website redirection attacks which lead to animal vagina sex toy ecommerce pages, penis enlargement treatments, automatically-downloading Windows program files, and porn.

“Sex xxx video sexy Xvideo bf porn XXX xnxx Sex XXX porn XXX blue film Sex Video xxx sex videos Porn Hub XVideos XXX sexy bf videos blue film Videos Oficial on Instagram New Viral Video The latest original video has taken the internet by storm and left viewers in on various social media platforms ex Videos Hot Sex Video Hot Porn viral video,” reads the beginning of a three-page PDF uploaded to the website of the Irvington, New Jersey city government’s website.

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 12 Dec 06:34 next collapse

Pretty soon you’ll need age verification to view whitehouse.gov

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world on 12 Dec 07:16 collapse

Didn’t that already happen somewhere around the turn of the millennium?

EDIT: Yup, although it was a .com domain.

adminofoz@lemmy.cafe on 15 Dec 19:00 collapse

This was the go to computer prank for 10 year old boys in the schools computer lab.

Real learning moment.

ElderReflections@fedia.io on 12 Dec 08:49 next collapse

“Basically the craziest things you can think of will show up as long as you’re on image search,” Penny told 404 Media. “I’ll be doing this all week.”

Doing that extra detailed research...

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Dec 16:07 collapse

Uh yep, pdfs are a fucking nightmare from a security standpoint, … guess we’re gonna keep learning that the hard way, as opposed to maybe, I dunno, using a more sane document format, that isn’t a meta-container for basically every other file format in existence, at this point.

Oh well I guess!