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FBI admin error leads to porn, drugs, malware and more as it loses control of website

MegaUpload was seized in January 2012 after it and founder Kim Dotcom were accused of harbouring millions of copyright-breaching files. The FBI has redirected traffic to a server under their own control, containing the message, via its own name servers. This is where the FBI forgot to renew the cirfu.net domain, and it was snapped up by a black hat SEO practitioner calling himself Earl Grey He used the domain name to promote bogus adverts, including links to malware downloads, and even a bogus BBC News report claiming that an iPhone 6 can be yours for just.1.00.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/fbi-admin-error-leads-to-porn-drugs-malware-and-more-as-it-loses-control-of-website/

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