Privacy News Crunchyroll site suffered a DNS hijacking

[JChris]

On 4 Nov 2017 the anime streaming site Crunchyroll suffered a DNS hijacking attack.

Official statements from Crunchyroll:

• Crunchyroll on Twitter
  
• Crunchyroll.de on Twitter

It seems the official app was not affect, but they took it down for analysis anyway:

• Crunchyroll on Twitter

[VirusTotal] [Hybrid Analysis]

On the news:

Popular Anime Site Crunchyroll.com Hijacked to Distribute Malware

 

[LASER_oneXM]

...removing this malware seems to be quote easy:

How can you remove the Crunchyroll related malware?
Thankfully, removing the malware distributed by the Crunchyroll hack is fairly easy. The only issue is that this malware is not currently detected by many security vendors, so we will need to perform manual removal steps.

removal instructions has been published in this article: Popular Anime Site Crunchyroll.com Hijacked to Distribute Malware