It’s not just the stats. It’s trying to get getting links to those bogus sites on a well-trafficked site like the front page of meh probably in an effort to game Google.
Now Twitter is gone and there’s just a steady stream of questionable pharma. That’s a lot of fake referrals to overcome the clickthroughs from Twitter.
@stolicat Well, up to 21 at the moment but countless threads complaining about it didn’t help that much. We never did get a real explanation for the change either.
@PocketBrain@unksol That’s what we teach users, yes. But at the same time, we all know that like 80% of people are definitely that dumb and untrainable, and smarter folks’ time will be wasted unfucking their idiot relatives’ and managers’ computers.
(True story:
07:11, a postdoc in a PII-sensitive computational field at a high-ranked school: “I think I shouldn’t respond to this extremely obvious phishing email, can you confirm?”
07:16, same guy: “I thought about it and I didn’t want my account get locked so I sent them my password, please let me know if that was right.”
I don’t do desktop, but I’m pretty sure his ass got reimaged without prejudice.)
The prosocial thing would be to put the kibosh on this foolishness.
@PocketBrain@unksol@whogots I would love to spend some time inside that postdoc’s head. Watching people use computers in an unfamiliar way is fascinating. If you try hard enough, you can usually come up with plausible stories about things people don’t know that explain their behavior. I have never squared that brand of smart idiocy, though. I mean… eh. At least he kept you in the loop.
@InnocuousFarmer@PocketBrain@unksol He had every reason and every opportunity to do better. I really don’t want to know what goes on in his little head.
But yeah, you’re right – at least he talked. It could have been so much worse.
I live in a rocket science town now, so… well, there was an entire TV show about some of the smart-stupid that happens here.
@InnocuousFarmer@unksol@whogots
That type of scam is intended to get you into a panic; your rational brain shuts down in a panic, to make you clutch your purse, hike up your skirt, defend your goodies without rationalizing about it. How much junk mail has “LAST NOTICE!” printed on it? Also the IRS scam thing with the robot voice saying your local Sheriff has a warrant on you, that you can cancel by paying off your tax bill over the phone right now. Panic. The best antidote is to be informed and educated. My company actually sends out fake phishing emails; once I did a whois on the link and figured out it was owned by the corp. I attached the email according to policy and sent to our CIRT with the text, “nice try” and the results of the whois report. Now they only use fake URLs registered through 3rd and 4th parties so it’s not so quick and easy to track. I still try to identify which ones are the corp. testing people and respond with “nice try.”
@PocketBrain@unksol@whogots I mean, something like, “I’m a inportant doctor. If my account is locked, I can’t work. But I was supposed to not email my password to informatien@passwords_tchnolology.ru – what a conundrum. I will contact IT.”
… five minutes later…
“I’ve been standing here an entire hour. I’ve got to get back to my… tasks. I’ll just send the password. It’s probably IT, and even if it’s not, it’s probably not a targeted attack, so it can probably get fixed before it’s an issue, and I don’t have to wait for an indeterminate time, possibly disrupting the entire day.”
The solution is a shock collar that goes off whenever his password is in an outgoing email. You’re thinking “but then we have to store the password locally for comparison”. Sure, but you know it is daughter name + birthday anyways, so that he can remember those two pieces of information by typing them in frequently.
But I digress.
Point is, it’s usually unfixable missing knowledge and context more than rank stupidity.
Man, they are doing it everywhere that has a referral counter. I thought it was just deals sites, but NOOOO, apparently hit the “Maranatha Rottweiler Kennel”? An internet hotspot if I’ve ever seen one.
I need to stop looking at this and get to my Monday meeting slalom, but if someone can send a screenshot, a link, and a Google search to abuse@cloudflare.com and abuse@registrar.eu, that’d be cool of you.
@whogots Don’t waste your time emailing abuse@cloudflare- just go to the site here: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form and save yourself the trouble of getting the automated reply telling you to do the same thing.
@dashcloud You can’t uncheck the “share this report with website owner” box on the reporting form. Gross gross gross… defo removing us from this report and letting them chew on the hundreds of other sites that were attacked.
It’s not just the stats. It’s
trying to getgetting links to those bogus sites on a well-trafficked site like the front page of meh probably in an effort to game Google.@djslack They’re trying to get me to click on those links, right? MUST RESIST
Now Twitter is gone and there’s just a steady stream of questionable pharma. That’s a lot of fake referrals to overcome the clickthroughs from Twitter.
@djslack It’s 5PM here and I’m still seeing exactly this on the homepage.
@djslack @PooltoyWolf I think you people have uncovered an additional mediocre corp revenue stream.
I have a way to fix this. Get rid of it. Who gives a shit where people are coming from? Use that space and bring back the calendar permanently.
@cinoclav yuuuuuuuuup
@cinoclav YES!!!
@cinoclav
I like seeing where people are coming from.
/image top referrer sites
@cinoclav @eonfifty I like seeing that gif
@tinamarie1974
Top Gun?
@cinoclav @eonfifty oh top referral WAS Tom Cruise from Top Gun. Must have changed it.
@cinoclav I hope “they” note the 19 (as of now) in your comment’s star …
@stolicat Well, up to 21 at the moment but countless threads complaining about it didn’t help that much. We never did get a real explanation for the change either.
@dave is aware of it.
@RiotDemon Hopefully he has better things to do on a Sunday than bother with this.
@RiotDemon @sammydog01 I hear it’s a top priority.
I’ll take lisinopril40, for 100, Alex.
My concern is, these are potential attack sites. Perhaps remove the hyperlink?
Someone gets it. Friends don’t let friends be attack vectors.
Check out the big brain on @PocketBrain.
I dropped a deuce today. It smelt better than this…
amoxicillin500 .com just took the lead.
@mike808 twitter has re-enetered the race, and amoxicillin500 takes a nasty spin.
albendazoletablets comes from behind on the far turn …
I look forward to the OHSHIT report
@unksol They need to do a OHSHIT report about why they don’t do OHSHIT reports anymore.
@therealjrn @unksol they need to do an OHSHIT report on why this is still clickable on the front page.
@PocketBrain I mean if you’re dumb enough to click on it without knowing what you’re doing…
@therealjrn @unksol
Alas, the Meh startup wild & funky promo phase is longgg gone…
@PocketBrain @unksol That’s what we teach users, yes. But at the same time, we all know that like 80% of people are definitely that dumb and untrainable, and smarter folks’ time will be wasted unfucking their idiot relatives’ and managers’ computers.
(True story:
07:11, a postdoc in a PII-sensitive computational field at a high-ranked school: “I think I shouldn’t respond to this extremely obvious phishing email, can you confirm?”
07:16, same guy: “I thought about it and I didn’t want my account get locked so I sent them my password, please let me know if that was right.”
I don’t do desktop, but I’m pretty sure his ass got reimaged without prejudice.)
The prosocial thing would be to put the kibosh on this foolishness.
@PocketBrain @unksol @whogots I would love to spend some time inside that postdoc’s head. Watching people use computers in an unfamiliar way is fascinating. If you try hard enough, you can usually come up with plausible stories about things people don’t know that explain their behavior. I have never squared that brand of smart idiocy, though. I mean… eh. At least he kept you in the loop.
@InnocuousFarmer @PocketBrain @unksol He had every reason and every opportunity to do better. I really don’t want to know what goes on in his little head.
But yeah, you’re right – at least he talked. It could have been so much worse.
I live in a rocket science town now, so… well, there was an entire TV show about some of the smart-stupid that happens here.
@InnocuousFarmer @unksol @whogots
That type of scam is intended to get you into a panic; your rational brain shuts down in a panic, to make you clutch your purse, hike up your skirt, defend your goodies without rationalizing about it. How much junk mail has “LAST NOTICE!” printed on it? Also the IRS scam thing with the robot voice saying your local Sheriff has a warrant on you, that you can cancel by paying off your tax bill over the phone right now. Panic. The best antidote is to be informed and educated. My company actually sends out fake phishing emails; once I did a whois on the link and figured out it was owned by the corp. I attached the email according to policy and sent to our CIRT with the text, “nice try” and the results of the whois report. Now they only use fake URLs registered through 3rd and 4th parties so it’s not so quick and easy to track. I still try to identify which ones are the corp. testing people and respond with “nice try.”
@PocketBrain @unksol @whogots I mean, something like, “I’m a inportant doctor. If my account is locked, I can’t work. But I was supposed to not email my password to informatien@passwords_tchnolology.ru – what a conundrum. I will contact IT.”
… five minutes later…
“I’ve been standing here an entire hour. I’ve got to get back to my… tasks. I’ll just send the password. It’s probably IT, and even if it’s not, it’s probably not a targeted attack, so it can probably get fixed before it’s an issue, and I don’t have to wait for an indeterminate time, possibly disrupting the entire day.”
The solution is a shock collar that goes off whenever his password is in an outgoing email. You’re thinking “but then we have to store the password locally for comparison”. Sure, but you know it is daughter name + birthday anyways, so that he can remember those two pieces of information by typing them in frequently.
But I digress.
Point is, it’s usually unfixable missing knowledge and context more than rank stupidity.
I arrived from
Sadaddict.com
And
Streetneedleuser.com
And
Frequent-flyer-rehab.com
But my stats aren’t showing up.
/giphy wtf?
@f00l I want to click on those links soooo badly.
@sammydog01 You have a problem.
@Barney @sammydog01 Admitting you have a problem is the first step!
/image first step
Man, they are doing it everywhere that has a referral counter. I thought it was just deals sites, but NOOOO, apparently hit the “Maranatha Rottweiler Kennel”? An internet hotspot if I’ve ever seen one.
I need to stop looking at this and get to my Monday meeting slalom, but if someone can send a screenshot, a link, and a Google search to abuse@cloudflare.com and abuse@registrar.eu, that’d be cool of you.
@whogots Don’t waste your time emailing abuse@cloudflare- just go to the site here: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form and save yourself the trouble of getting the automated reply telling you to do the same thing.
@dashcloud Cool, cool, thank you. I was just about to do those emails since no one’d replied.
@dashcloud You can’t uncheck the “share this report with website owner” box on the reporting form. Gross gross gross… defo removing us from this report and letting them chew on the hundreds of other sites that were attacked.
Thanks @dave or whoever, you fixted the site today!
HAHAHA … Cloudflare responded that the true hosting company for the domain I cited was PIN-AS.
As in, Petersburg Internet Network.
As in, not the good guys.
@whogots They’ll usually disable the hosting for phishing sites- maybe they’ll also do it for spam sites?
So the Russians are hacking meh now?