US Government Site Was Hosting Ransomware

[LASER_oneXM]

As recently as Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that led victims to installations of Cerber ransomware.

Researcher Ankit Anubhav of NewSky Security tweeted the discovery Wednesday, and within hours, the malware link was taken down. It’s unknown whether anyone was infected through the site.

It’s also unknown how the downloader was dropped onto the .gov site. Anubhav speculated that either the site was hacked, or it possibly stores attachments from government officials’ emails and the downloader was archived.

 

[Deletedmessiah]

Taxes aren't sufficient

 

[Fritz]

"We are from the government and we are here to help you."

 

[Lightning_Brian]

Wow! That's not good at all. Hopefully, they will come to a conclusion on how this got onto the website in the first place. Sounds like they need to do some security oversight on their website!

 

[NikolayfromRussia]

Shame on uncle Sam

 

[Weebarra]

"We are from the government and we are here to help you."

So very true