Re:I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware hone...
by sodality2 on Friday March 01, 2024 @02:59PM
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Passing malicious URL filters is crucial to operations like ransomware, phishing, etc - hiding a bad domain behind a good one is extremely valuable to hackers and relatively cheap. Though I am surprised they'd pay for it due to the payment -> identity link (maybe it's stolen CCs but Stripe is pretty good about blocking that).
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Re:I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware hone...
by bell-cot on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:24PM
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> Though I am surprised they'd pay for it due to the payment -> identity...
Between gift cards, money mules, shell corporations, and "that country doesn't cooperate with investigations"...I'd guess that this is no more than a minor problem for serious criminals.