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  • Is BSNL Hacking Into Insecure HTTP Connections To Inject Its Advertisements?

    Kaustubh Katdare

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    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    It looks like BSNL's hired someone really really smart. The person has come up with an excellent idea of injecting BSNL's own advertisements into every website that loads over 'http' ; that is if the website starts with 'http' instead of 'https', BSNL will force-inject their advertisement on the site.

    User's can't figure out whether the ad is coming from the site itself or being injected by BSNL. I do not visit any website that does not support SSL; but I recently stumbled upon a Government website that had not obtained its SSL certificate; and I saw a big BSNL advertisement on the site - that led the entire site unresponsive. I had to reload the page multiple times to get rid of the ad. 

    I'm going to capture a screenshot of the ad next time BSNL send it to my browser. 

    We've an old discussion about the same problem; and I'm not sure if BSNL had actually stopped it after concerns where raised by several netizens who were on BSNL connection. #-Link-Snipped-#

    Have you spotted a big BSNL banner on any site that actually fills ~40% of the screen? Is BSNL hacking into insecure connections?

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  • Sharfudeen Mohamed Ibrahim

    Member • Feb 9, 2019

    Its a bit interesting topic...

    I already know that someone hacked into a large amount of mikrotik routers to inject malicious coinhive codes to mine XMR (Read here: #-Link-Snipped-# ). So BSNL might trying to do something like this?

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