Julian Assange: All That Malware on Wikileaks Isn't a Big Deal

[struggle4progress]

October 4, 2016 // 09:08 AM EST

On Tuesday, Wikileaks celebrated its 10th anniversary with a press conference ...

... recently, one researcher found that Wikileaks’ site is hosting tens of thousands of malicious files within its archives, potentially infecting visitors who execute them. At the press conference, Assange downplayed the risk to users, talking via video-link from London ...

... Dr. Vesselin Bontchev .. who has monitored malware on Wikileaks, told Motherboard that the site contains at least 33,000 malicious files ...

“Most websites don't make tens of thousands of malicious files available for download. Unless, of course, we are talking about malware distribution sites, but I have a hard time thinking of even one of those that has so many malicious files available!” ...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/julian-assange-all-that-malware-on-wikileaks-isnt-a-big-deal

[Lucinda]

1. KNR Thank you!

[ismnotwasm]

2. Hooboy

What the hell, Wikileaks? Can't set yourself up as self righteous hackers, them fail your own puity test and expect respect.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Well, I've never gone there...

didn't realize that was such a good thing, but this makes me glad I didn't.

Well, this and the basic content.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Guaranteed to receive Cryptolocker if you

Download shit from that nasty place.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. On his way to becoming the most unfunny joke on the planet.

Hang it up already, you sleazy, self-important raping POS. You've reached your stop, the ride is over.

[OKNancy]

8. +1000

[lillypaddle]

6. Whoa Boy!

Kick for the afternoon and evening crew.

[KittyWampus]

7. It's not a bug, it's a feature!

[4lbs]

9. The site is sponsored by the Russians. Of course there would be thousands of malware files

on there.

They want to infect computers in the US and gather even more data. They hope to infect the computer of someone working in the media or the US government, thereby possibly getting sensitive information that they can release at a later date.

[padfun]

10. A LOT of that malware is...

how they get their information from computers that have it. And make sure it does nothing else but gather info, and then ease by the firewall as it gets sent.