A Defunct Video Hosting Site Is Flooding Normal Websites With Hardcore Porn
... As pointed out by Twitter user @dox_gay, hardcore porn is now embedded on the pages of the Huffington Post, New York magazine, The Washington Post, and a host of other websites. This is because a porn site called 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain for Vidme, a brief YouTube competitor founded in 2014 and shuttered in 2017. Its Twitter account is still up, but the domain lapsed. ...
The trend toward embeds rather than screenshots or direct copying has long struck me as ill-conceived.
At least it's only pr0n. As a vector for malware / spyware injection, this could be even more interesting.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27924777
#infosec #bitrot #pr0n #DNS #ItsAlwaysDNS #LapsedDomains #EmbeddedContent #malware #spyware #risks #infosec
