Pokernews alleged Issues with Trojans

[Doobs]

People are reporting they are picking up trojans from the pokernews site.  Be careful when looking for WSOP updates.

See link below (should be safe)

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://www.pokernews.com

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 1271 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 135 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2014-06-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2014-06-01.
Malicious software includes 43 exploit(s), 4 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 4 new process(es) on the target machine.

[Doobs]

Dear PokerNews visitors,

Let me start by saying that PokerNews takes these issues very seriously. Safety of our visitors is top priority for us.

On Saturday one user started posting comments which at the time looked like comments with embedded pictures. Our security software failed to flag them as suspicious because they were not distributing malware or redirecting to domains that do.

Yesterday content of those comments started distributing malware, we’re still working on identifying what the malware does. Last night 01:00 AM GMT the malware was removed and work was started to fix parts of the system which allowed the injection. You may still see warnings because it takes some time for URL to be removed from blacklists.

To prevent incidents of this kind in the future we’re tightening permissions for new accounts, introducing additional restrictions for users who often change locations and adding additional checks for content that is posted on the site.

I’d like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Justinas Becius
Chief Technical Officer
www.pokernews.com