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Is it a genuine alert, or hacking artifact? Sometimes with friendly / attempt-at-humorous error messages it’s difficult to tell
by uticus 2y ago
Is it a genuine alert, or hacking artifact?
Sometimes with friendly / attempt-at-humorous error messages it’s difficult to tell
- n_i_k_h_i_l 2y agoIt's a literal window.alert()
- PLenz 2y agoBut was that code placed there by IA or by the malicious party?
- seanw444 2y agoSounds snarky to me. I'll bet it was the malicious party.
- abracadaniel 2y agoVerge reports someone has taken credit for an ongoing DDOS against IA. "An account on X called SN_Blackmeta said it was behind the attack and implied that another attack was planned for tomorrow" https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive...
- dang 2y agoOk, let's switch to that link. Thanks! Submitted URL was https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/.
- silexia 2y agoThe verge generally is clickbait, another site choice would have been better.
- dang 2y agoThat class of sites generally is, yes. But on HN we go by article quality, not site quality (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) and I didn't see a better specific article on this. If there is a better one, we can change the link again.
- varun_ch 2y agoThis bad actor has videos of them supposedly “ddosing” Spotify by pinging 1.1.1.1 in two terminal windows on their Twitter. Is there any link between them and the real attack or are they just unrelated people claiming credit for it?
- whimsicalism 2y agoit wouldn’t be a window.alert if it were IA
- jrochkind1 2y agoI feel like it's safe to assume the official Internet Archive would not write a "friendly"/attempt-at-humurous/unprofessional/confusing/delivered-by-popup message advertising a devastating security breach. Oh also while announcing that nowhere else. Obv an attackers ability to insert a message does imply a breach beyond a DoS. But I am pretty confident that message was not from the IA.