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Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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Dozens of government and university websites belonging to cities, towns, and public agencies across the country are hosting PDFs promoting AI porn apps, porn sites, and cryptocurrency scams; dozens more have been hit with a website redirection attacks which lead to animal vagina sex toy ecommerce pages, penis enlargement treatments, automatically-downloading Windows program files, and porn.

“Sex xxx video sexy Xvideo bf porn XXX xnxx Sex XXX porn XXX blue film Sex Video xxx sex videos Porn Hub XVideos XXX sexy bf videos blue film Videos Oficial on Instagram New Viral Video The latest original video has taken the internet by storm and left viewers in on various social media platforms ex Videos Hot Sex Video Hot Porn viral video,” reads the beginning of a three-page PDF uploaded to the website of the Irvington, New Jersey city government’s website.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Uh yep, pdfs are a fucking nightmare from a security standpoint, ... guess we're gonna keep learning that the hard way, as opposed to maybe, I dunno, using a more sane document format, that isn't a meta-container for basically every other file format in existence, at this point.

Oh well I guess!

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Raw text, CSS, and standard image formats can do everything the insane ancient printer format can do (PDF is basically just PostScript with features bolted on)

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

EPUB?

Anybody for EPUB2 maybe?