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So wait a second then, it connects out using a websocket to its bot C&C server, right? Which presumably passes it a URL to scrape and waits for it to return th
by ErroneousBosh 5mo ago
So wait a second then, it connects out using a websocket to its bot C&C server, right?
Which presumably passes it a URL to scrape and waits for it to return the data.
What happens if I write my own tool that connects to that C&C server, waits for a URL to scrape, and returns gigabytes of freshly brewed hot horseshit?
- woffoor 5mo agoMost scrapped websites have https, so you need to perform a MITM attack. Scrapers will probably notice that.
- voakbasda 5mo agoNo, you just need to stand up your own website and feed the scraper a URL to it.
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoI would just generate scads of Markov chain output and make it look like a plausible web page.
- dreamcompiler 5mo agoThat's pretty much what the bots are scraping now, with all the AI slop websites out there.
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoFair point well made.
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoHow would https affect it? If they're making a request to my machine to go and curl a page, how do they even know whether or not it was https?
- trumpdong 5mo agoNot sure about Bright Data but these are usually SOCKS or HTTP CONNECT proxies because that's most flexible. But the customer might be paying by the gigabyte, so you can still feed them nonsense, maybe a 4 gigabyte TLS certificate.