showler Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 I'm guessing it's some group that got into a bunch of old unused accounts and is spamming the same malicious links. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVampireDante Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 1 hour ago, showler said: I'm guessing it's some group that got into a bunch of old unused accounts and is spamming the same malicious links. New accounts, mix of bots and user behaviours, spamming in the hopes of the pages being around long enough to get search indexed so people searching for something on the site might get served their spam page. Spammers riding our coattails in the hopes of getting more widespread opportunities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienSlof Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 What do they actually gain from doing that, though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVampireDante Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 Lot of people still just download things without checking, so someone searches for (to take a recent example) - a body mod for one of Cyberpunk 2077's NPCs, Panam. There's been a few spam pages listing themselves as that sort of mod. So people search for it, find the spam page from a google search or something (if the page surived long enough to be indexed) and blindly just download what's on the page then open it up thinking it's safe. That or follow a link on the page and download something from wherever that leads to without checking it's clean, which is equally as short-sighted, and potentially far more harmful to them. Could be disruptive or destructive malware, data scrapers, keyloggers, remote takeover software, ransomware. Could be to gain access to their social media accounts to take them over, or see if there's financial data held on the system they can exploit. Lot of options, just depends on what the spammer wants. To be a nuisnace, or try to widen their net to catch more computers for something (botnets) or simply just some form of extortion from the user(s) who fell for their crap. Still a large amount of "hope someone falls for it" with spam, but the more they try, the higher chance they catch someone unprepared who falls for it. Scumbags being scumbags as usual... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienSlof Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 The more I see of humans the more I love my beasties. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 6 hours ago, AlienSlof said: The more I see of humans the more I love my beasties. Ain't that the truth...... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVampireDante Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 11 hours ago, AlienSlof said: The more I see of humans the more I love my beasties. Here, have a sleepy cat belly to atone for the doom & gloom. (Calypso having one of her usual naps). 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirCadsimar Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 I laughed for 30 seconds after seeing this: Â 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHeadAngel Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 This has to be one of the dumbest users I have ever seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted November 21 Share Posted November 21 1 hour ago, RedHeadAngel said: This has to be one of the dumbest users I have ever seen. Never underestimate the potential for stupidity in your fellow man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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