Archived TIL huffpo was installing rootkits to dl cp onto unsuspecting site visitors on 4/14/2017 (TIL)
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Archived TIL huffpo was installing rootkits to dl cp onto unsuspecting site visitors on 4/14/2017 (TIL)
submitted ago by Rebel_media_wtf
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[–] DrumpfBTFO 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Visited pol that day, and saw the article. The first post on the thread was not to click on the link. It begun with: huffingtonpost.co.za . Can't remember the article name, and couldn't find it from the catalog after that.
https://who.is/whois/huffingtonpost.co.za
That url seems to be registered to Huffingtonpost though. If someone knows, is it usually huffingtonpost.com? or something else, can't remember seeing it as .co.za
edit: Saw the thread where the article was posted, didn't visit the article though. That was spammed throughout the day, so guess it was that one.
edit2: Found the thread where someone said that its a virus: http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/121064509/huffington-post-blog-suggests-its-time-to-deny
No idea about it though, archive seems to have multiple threds where people are saying that huffpo installs a rootkit. They might be joking though, judging by the rest of the comments.