Infowars online-shop infected with malware. Alex Jones blames Communists and Democrats.

[DetlefK]

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/11/infowars-infected-with-credit-card-stealing-malware-alex-jones-claims-its-a-conspiracy/

ZDNet interviewed Dutch security researcher Willem de Groot about his discovery of a strain of malware known as Magecart on the Infowars store. De Groot uses a custom-built malware scanner to monitor various websites for infections and he told ZDNet that he’s kept tabs on Infowars for three and a half years with no signs of foul play.

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 company’s 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. We’ve reached out to Magento to confirm Jones’s claims that the point of entry did not involve one of the e-commerce company’s plugins and that he’s working closely with its “top security people”.

Or maybe... maybe... Infowars' IT-team sucks?

[blogslut]

1. He's doing everything else on the cheap, so probably, yeah.

One of his people probably coded in a freeware script or cracked a paid one.

[Wounded Bear]

2. They have 1600 customers?

Wow, who'd a thunk?

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I'm Trying To Think Like A Chest-Thumping Rugged Individualist

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 don’t have any sympathy. Caveat emptor, y’all. Let the buyer beware.

[Fatemah2774]

4. Maybe he can get his friend

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]

5. Thanks for the heads up.

just getting ready to go buy some stocking stuffers for the kids.

[MineralMan]

6. I love the smell of incompetence in the morning.

[Beausoleil]

7. I can't wait for his next big hit!

[NurseJackie]

8. Downloading porn and pirated software...

... that's my guess.

[Vogon_Glory]

11. On-line gambling could do it, too

I have an elderly aunt whose computer contracts viruses that way.

[malaise]

9. Check out losing ReTHUGs first

They must be fed up of this lunatic's crap.

[Initech]

10. These morons think they can run the country better than us? Ha!!!

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....