fyi, don't go to the CNN.com page about the nuclear orders, malware there

[steve2470]

I don't know how to report this to CNN, but just don't go there. You will get a huge fake page pretending to be Microsoft telling you to do stuff. Microsoft NEVER does stuff like this.

Just trying to help. I don't know if pop-up blockers and ad blockers block that kind of shite but at any rate, yea one of the ads on that page served it up.

eta: Just remembered I can report it on Twitter, now reported.

eta2: it is their version of this story https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-strategic-command-gen-john-hyten-resist-illegal-nuke-order-from-trump/

[Kirk Lover]

1. So it's not the main page....

[steve2470]

2. no, on a page within the site that has the story about the nuclear codes nt

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. It's probably something on your computer.

Run a full scan to be sure.

[steve2470]

4. nope, only happened on their site, been on the internet for hours nt

[FuzzyRabbit]

5. Hm-m-m. It was OK for me.

Win10, latest Firefox.

Good luck.

[steve2470]

6. scanned my computer twice with 2 different AV, came up 100% clean both times

I went back again with an AV installed directly into my browser and it told me to block an improper SSL request, so I did.

I've gone back after I uninstalled the 2nd AV, and yes it is now clean.

It was the site. Obviously the malefactors stopped their operation or CNN cleaned it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising

[Denzil_DC]

7. I took one for the team and tried it.

My rock-solid AV didn't flinch. I'm also running Ghostery, which doesn't seem to have blocked anything unusual. Somebody else may be more vulnerable, of course.

Just in case anyone wants to read the article, here's the first four paras:

The top U.S. nuclear commander said Saturday he would push back against President Trump if he ordered a nuclear launch the general believed to be "illegal," saying he would look to find another solution.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday that he has given a lot of thought to what he would say if a president ordered a strike he considered unlawful.

"I think some people think we're stupid," Hyten said in response to a question about such a scenario. "We're not stupid people. We think about these things a lot. When you have this responsibility, how do you not think about it?"

Hyten was responding to a question about testimony by former STRATCOM commander retired Gen. Robert Kehler before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week. Kehler said that nuclear operators would refuse to implement an unlawful order. Hyten agreed, and argued that the process in place to launch a nuclear strike would prevent such a situation from arising in the first place. As head of STRATCOM, Hyten is responsible for overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal.