Updated the list of confirmed malware distributed by @wikileaks with many new entries (from the 2nd AKP mail dump):https://github.com/bontchev/wlscrape/blob/master/malware.md …
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Replying to @VessOnSecurity
This new batch also seems to have nothing on "Turkey's political power structure." Claim not upheld.pic.twitter.com/Igx1HpouPb
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Replying to @zeynep @VessOnSecurity
As far as I can tell, more mailing lists (with mundane news articles); spam; overwhelmingly ordinary people, mundane emails.
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Replying to @zeynep @VessOnSecurity
This batch also contains personal info of ordinary people as they email inquiring for jobs, share travel plans. etc. *sigh*
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Replying to @zeynep
I know; I've read your original analysis when part 1 was released. Bad, I agree. But I'm an AV guy; my area of expertise is malware.
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Replying to @VessOnSecurity
Danger here is journalists being taken in by the misrepresentation—thinking these are AKP emails—and downloading malware.
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Replying to @zeynep @VessOnSecurity
Turkey's actual dissident & anti-censorship journos were first to go through these files. I can only hope they were careful.
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If you look at my page, there are links to the e-mail TEXT of the messages containing malicious attachments. Look at some; it's safe
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Replying to @VessOnSecurity @zeynep
You'll see it's run-of-the mill spam/scam/phish inciting you to click on the attachment.
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But in the future somebody might leak a REAL interesting document, with malware embedded in it. Lots of journos will get pwned.
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I should write more about this. This is a real danger; people should know Wikileaks won't protect them; take precautions.
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Replying to @zeynep
Go ahead, do it. Tell me if I can help with anything.
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Replying to @VessOnSecurity
Let me think the best way to do this. Feels like an issue in and of itself; and journos already bad about attachments.
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