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Government Sites Across the U.S. Are Awash in Hardcore Porn
The Intercept found dozens of government websites exploited by spammers to redirect to porn. Here’s how this hack happened.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s SimpleReport, identified as an “official website of the United States government” in a banner at the top of the page, provides “Desi Girl Xxx Video sex Videos,” while the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, points to “Sexy Beautiful European Porn.” But this recent wave of porn spam appears to be using a more complex technique: uploading to government pages rogue content that transports website visitors to malicious sites. Doing so invokes what’s called an onerror event in the HTML code, which instructs the web browser to pull up a third-party website if an image won’t load.
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