Re: CNET is Serving Malware

[Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca>]

On 12-06-20 8:03 AM, Glen Roberts wrote:
> This morning while researching Google’s five-year anniversary of providing malware protection, I found evidence that 
> CNET is serving up malware to its site visitors to the tune of 151 exploits, 64 trojans and 22 bots. The malicious 
> software is hosted on internet-safeness.ru and publictivity.com appears to be an intermediary for distributing 
> malware to site visitors.
>
> I have notified CNET of the problem but it’s pretty concerning that another CBS property is making the news again for 
> being insecure. It was only a few days ago that the Last.fm password hashes that were dumped made the news.
>
> Here is the link you can use to take advantage of Google’s insight into sites serving malware: 
> http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=cnet.com. Just replace the parameter with the site you want to 
> inspect. I recommend you check out the sites you manage and visit using Google’s tool.
>
> I've posted a screenshot here: http://www.internetgeneral.com/cnet-serving-malware/

One might be inclined to wonder, as I did, if it's CNET itself serving
up the malware, or an ad network that's been popped.

Mike

-- 
The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and
intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
 - Marshall McLuhan, 1969
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