How We Got Attacked by Malware Fiends and Survived
It's one thing to write about hackers, scammers, and malware, as I've done for various venues for the last 15 years. It's quite another to experience the nastiness first hand. This week, it was my turn. Here's my story.
Thursday night around 7 p.m. I Iogged onto my occasionally NSFW humor site, eSarcasm, to post something snarky. What I saw though, was something different and much scarier than usual -- A big fat warning sign from Google Chrome
Uh oh, I thought. That couldn't be good. But surely it's some glitch. Why would hackers target us? (OK, I can think of a few reasons. Maybe it was one of those humor-impaired Craigslist strippers we'd been mocking lately. We know Apple fanboys don't like us much. Or possibly 4chan's legions had stumbled onto our site and found something displeasing.) So I checked with my partner in snark, JR Raphael. He was seeing it too.
