Many people know http://zone-h.org/ as a web site that monitors defacements. This morning, I visited the site to search some defaced French governmental web sites. Indeed, attacks against French sites have been increasing since this country passed a bill making it a crime to deny that the Ottoman Turkish empire committed genocide against Armenians in 1915.

Browsing the site, I was surprised to be targeted by a Trojan when I visited some mirrored pages. I am sure that many people, correctly protected or not, do not imagine that they could catch malware from this site.

I just contacted the site founder and co-founder to alert them (see their response below). I would have hoped that they would have be able to modify their mirroring techniques, but at minimum, it would seem necessary to alert people before they open an infected mirrored web page.

Response from zone-h.org:

— QUOTE —Hello,unfortunately there is nothing we can do as some defacers are linking, from the defaced webpage some external pages against which, our internal server antivirus cannot perform any sanitation.

Best regards

Roberto Preatoni

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Make sure your security technologies are up to date if you are going to browse their site!!!!!!