r/Seattle mods discover malware injection by archive.today, ban site

6 comments

• consumer451 an hour ago

  Archive.today = archive.is - which is added via comment on a huge percentage of posts on HN.

  Link to comment explaining the discovery:

  https://old.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetod...

  edit: Maybe I should have titled this "claim to have discovered" as there is no external validation, and no write up. I thought I should post this in any case.

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  mahboi 17 minutes ago

  Version that doesn't require login: https://reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetoday_l...

  I'm confused though, it says the site injected malware into its archived form. But the HN title says archive.today injected the malware.

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  dpark 10 minutes ago

  You said the same thing twice. “The site” == archive.today

  The claim is that archive.today is injecting malware into archived pages. Given some of the past behavior, this is not hard to believe.

  LoganDark 6 minutes ago

  The archive.today site is the one injecting the malware, not the site being archived.

• Permik 10 minutes ago

  The writing had been on the wall for a while. Hopefully this'll finally drive the usage of the site down.

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  LoganDark 6 minutes ago

  Surprised that using visitors for DDoS attacks wasn't enough already.