It detected and blocked something trying to communicate outbound earlier yesterday.
All that I had up was DU at the time and I had run Malwarebytes and Webroot scans prior with no issues.

-none

(1,884 posts)

6. Yes, they have a problem.

Reply to hobbit709 (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 10:58 AM

Sep 2015

Here is a description of the problem.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/serious-imgur-bug-exploited-to-execute-worm-like-attack-on-8chan-users/

It is not a good idea to by-pass your virus/malware programs when they tell you something is wrong. That is a good way to get infected with something that may be hard to get rid of.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

7. When my other other security detects nothing then I figure its a false positive.

Reply to -none (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 12:27 PM

Sep 2015

-none

(1,884 posts)

8. Hackers upload bot code to Imgur in 8Chan attack

Reply to hobbit709 (Original post)

Wed Sep 23, 2015, 02:18 PM

Sep 2015

23 Sep 2015 at 01:30, Darren Pauli

A nasty vulnerability in Imgur was used by attackers to hide malicious code in images, commandeer visitors' browsers, and hose the 4Chan and 8Chan image boards.

Imgur has fixed the hole preventing the upload of malicious images, and says the compromised pages were served in targeted attacks and not published to the site's main gallery page.

The attack planted JavaScript in victims' local storage that sent a ping to the attacker's command and control servers whenever 8Chan was visited.

Compromised images were posted to 4Chan and a related Reddit subreddit page.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/23/imgur_attack/

Phentex

(16,334 posts)

9. This started happening to me here...

Reply to -none (Reply #8)

Sun Sep 27, 2015, 12:43 PM

Sep 2015

and only on the imgur pictures.

Thanks for the info!

malthaussen

(17,204 posts)

10. A bit late, but yeah, they were blocking for me, too.

Reply to hobbit709 (Original post)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 01:35 PM

Oct 2015

I also added exclusions.

-- Mal

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