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In light of the long-term effort to subvert xz and get a backdoor into sshd it's feasible that these kinds of malicious sites have a second agenda; become popul
by benlivengood 3y ago
In light of the long-term effort to subvert xz and get a backdoor into sshd it's feasible that these kinds of malicious sites have a second agenda; become popular enough as search results for a Free product to serve backdoored download links selectively or wholesale once they get enough traffic.
Regardless of intent, the low-quality ad networks sites like that serve routinely serve fractional malware ads anyway (focus-stealing alert()-style "you are the 100,000th visitor" or "malware detected on your device" garbage).
- cnity 3y agoYes, though I was trying to expand the definition of malicious to include GPs own terms. Even if that never happened, the current situation is already malicious because the site erodes at the trust factor of the victim site in exchange for ad revenue.