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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInfowars online-shop infected with malware. Alex Jones blames Communists and Democrats.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/11/infowars-infected-with-credit-card-stealing-malware-alex-jones-claims-its-a-conspiracy/But on Monday, he noticed some malicious code had been added to a block of JavaScript connected to Google Analytics. He said it appeared within 24 hours prior to its discovery. In a statement sent to ZDNet, Infowars founder Alex Jones said that only 1,600 customers may have been affected, and the companys customer support team is being contacted so they can watch for any unusual charges to their account and rectify them.
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While the piece of code was embedded on every page of the Infowars store, it reportedly only functioned when a user decided to check out. Every 1.5 seconds it would scrape the contents of the payment fields and transmit them to a server in Lithuania located at google-analyitics.org.
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Jones went on to accuse big tech, the communist Chinese, and the Democratic party of being behind a sweeping effort to de-platform Infowars. Weve reached out to Magento to confirm Joness claims that the point of entry did not involve one of the e-commerce companys plugins and that hes working closely with its top security people.
Or maybe... maybe... Infowars' IT-team sucks?
blogslut
(37,999 posts)One of his people probably coded in a freeware script or cracked a paid one.
Wounded Bear
(58,647 posts)Wow, who'd a thunk?
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)of the sort te Extreme Right professes to admire so I can see if I can sympathize.
Dum...Tee...Tum...Tee...Tum...
(Time passes)
Nope, I dont have any sympathy. Caveat emptor, yall. Let the buyer beware.
Fatemah2774
(245 posts)The Gay Frog in a pink tutu to help him. I'd link the YouTube video but I'm not that techie geek. I just speak in Star Wars geek.
Hotler
(11,420 posts)just getting ready to go buy some stocking stuffers for the kids.
MineralMan
(146,287 posts)Beausoleil
(2,843 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... that's my guess.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)I have an elderly aunt whose computer contracts viruses that way.
malaise
(268,949 posts)They must be fed up of this lunatic's crap.
Initech
(100,065 posts)They can't IT, they can't broadcast, they can't get anything right. I am not surprised at all that the Infowars site has malware on it. But....