We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them?

Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by thesuitonym on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:18PM (#50396995)

Try abuse@[domain] or the admin contact listed in WHOIS.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by eli on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:20PM (#50397039)

On smaller websites I’d be surprised if 1 in 100 of those goes to a person who reads the email sent there.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by myself248 on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:21PM (#50397913)

And on the 1 who does, they get 40 similar-looking emails per day, all of which are scams, and have learned to ignore them.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by pmlnr on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:31PM (#50398060)

NOBODY messages abuse@ I had mine on my domains for decades, never got one single email.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by dlcarrier on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:51PM (#50397466)

Also admin@… or even legal@… I usually check for a "contact us" web page, too.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by duskwuff on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:13PM (#50397776)

To 15,000 email addresses? That's indistinguishable from a small-scale spam campaign.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by pmlnr on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:32PM (#50398073)

Spread it through hours, days; use mailgun; use a throwaway google groups like spammers do.

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Re:We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? by hackernud3s on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:15PM (#50399810)

At that point you're a spammer.

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