LAST MONTH WIKILEAKS PUBLISHED EMAILS STOLEN FROM TURKISH RULING PARTY AKP — NOW, A RESEARCHER HAS PRESENTED A REPORT SHOWING THE AKP EMAILS CONTAIN MALWARE ATTACHMENTS!
A security researcher, Vesselin Bontchev, claims to have found malware in several downloadable files in the leaked data dump published by WikiLeaks from the Turkish ruling party (AKP) server.
The Bulgaria-based researcher uploaded his analysis on Github that shows hundreds of AKP emails contain malware attachments. For those who are not familiar with WikiLeaks AKP data dump, in July 2016 a hacker going by the online handle of Phineas Fisher claimed responsibility for hacking into the email server of AKP (Justice and Development Party) and stealing a trove of data which was later shared with WiKiLeaks.
WikiLeaks published the data after the failed military coup last month. Bontchev’s research is a lesson for users: ”be careful what you download from the Internet.” More details on the AKP breach are available on SoftPedia.
Bontchev divided his analysis into three columns where ”the first column contains a link to the e-mail on the Wikileaks site that contains the malicious attachment. The second column contains the URL on the Wikileaks site where the malicious attachment to this e-mail message resides while the third column contains links leading to a VirusTotal page, showing how the different scanners are reporting the malware,” according to his Github report.
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