I have confirmed archive.ph, which archive.today redirects to, has malicious code which attempts to spam gyrovague.com with requests.
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I have confirmed archive.ph, which archive.today redirects to, has malicious code which attempts to spam gyrovague.com with requests. The code I independently verified matches the code in the Hacker News post.
Behind CloudFlare:
https://tria.ge/260116-d3jafadj81/behavioral1Do not use archive.today, archive.is, and archive.ph. By accessing these websites, you are donating your bandwidth to a botnet of unknown origin and purpose.
Original source:
https://social.coop/@eb/115902323900229756An emergency update to the Malicious Website Blocklist has been made to counter this threat. An emergency update is currently in the works to fix the emergency update as it is in the wrong place (I want to link to this toot in the update, so waiting to commit until I post).
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I have confirmed archive.ph, which archive.today redirects to, has malicious code which attempts to spam gyrovague.com with requests. The code I independently verified matches the code in the Hacker News post.
Behind CloudFlare:
https://tria.ge/260116-d3jafadj81/behavioral1Do not use archive.today, archive.is, and archive.ph. By accessing these websites, you are donating your bandwidth to a botnet of unknown origin and purpose.
Original source:
https://social.coop/@eb/115902323900229756An emergency update to the Malicious Website Blocklist has been made to counter this threat. An emergency update is currently in the works to fix the emergency update as it is in the wrong place (I want to link to this toot in the update, so waiting to commit until I post).
Hey Benjamin! Das scheint eine heiße Geschichte zu sein...
Die bekannte Archivierungs-Plattform archive.today scheint schädlichen Code eingebettet zu haben...
Weitere Quellen / Infos:
Evan B🥥ehs (@eb@social.coop)
So the mysterious person behind archive.today is very likely to be "Masha Rabinovich." A 2023 investigation from Jani Patokallio theorized this much https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ However recently a few things happened over the past few days. A HN user noticed that archive.today visitors are being used in a botnet staging a DDoS attack against Jani's website, and Jani has received a bogus C&D. Who was the HN user who noticed this? Well... 🧵
social.coop (social.coop)
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I have confirmed archive.ph, which archive.today redirects to, has malicious code which attempts to spam gyrovague.com with requests. The code I independently verified matches the code in the Hacker News post.
Behind CloudFlare:
https://tria.ge/260116-d3jafadj81/behavioral1Do not use archive.today, archive.is, and archive.ph. By accessing these websites, you are donating your bandwidth to a botnet of unknown origin and purpose.
Original source:
https://social.coop/@eb/115902323900229756An emergency update to the Malicious Website Blocklist has been made to counter this threat. An emergency update is currently in the works to fix the emergency update as it is in the wrong place (I want to link to this toot in the update, so waiting to commit until I post).
I have posted about this on BlueSky and X.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ysz3jltsuhnyrqrskrcbcz2s/post/3mcj75vyiec2uhttps://x.com/iam_py_test/status/2012010781622353950I have also blocklisted it in Imre's malware list.
Despite times call for despite measures. It isn't often a popular website starts DDoSing somebody.
I have also informed members of the content filtering community though a red phone on my desk.
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Hey Benjamin! Das scheint eine heiße Geschichte zu sein...
Die bekannte Archivierungs-Plattform archive.today scheint schädlichen Code eingebettet zu haben...
Weitere Quellen / Infos:
Evan B🥥ehs (@eb@social.coop)
So the mysterious person behind archive.today is very likely to be "Masha Rabinovich." A 2023 investigation from Jani Patokallio theorized this much https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the-mysterious-guerrilla-archivist-of-the-internet/ However recently a few things happened over the past few days. A HN user noticed that archive.today visitors are being used in a botnet staging a DDoS attack against Jani's website, and Jani has received a bogus C&D. Who was the HN user who noticed this? Well... 🧵
social.coop (social.coop)
@proton_xor @iampytest1 _/(0_0)7 Roger, guck ich mir an
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@proton_xor @iampytest1 _/(0_0)7 Roger, guck ich mir an
@Murmel @iampytest1 ja moin, auch schon so früh wach
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@Murmel @iampytest1 ja moin, auch schon so früh wach
@proton_xor @iampytest1 Jau, Wecker geht um 4:45 ^^ Dafür heute auch noch verpennt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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