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fewiron9
8y ago
It seems like Thousandeyes must have figured out the breach and what happened. The links on google do not work, because the domain does not exist. However, the old IP for one of them was 23.92.28.179 and that still works, and says is a PDF
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8y ago
They must be monitoring Hackernews... they took the domain down.
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8y ago
If you click on any of those links they are all fake. If you click on "cached", you see the text googlebot saw - totally different and most likely valid PDF. Someone is doing cloaking. I also do not think the company is doing it o
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8y ago
Came across this while trying to find a direct link to the PDF of their cloud research, trying to bypass download forms. To my surprise there was a ton of PDFs linking to shady site.
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Thousandeyes Breach Spamming Google Search with Fake PDFs
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8y ago
Ironic that the company reporting this has security problems themselves. I was trying to download their cloud research pdf via google and spammers have gotten hold of them with hundreds of thousands of fake links: https://www.goo