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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Yeah, it depends on what you mean.

    In many cases malware and phishing is hosted off other compromised sites. So, they build a list of Wordpress sites with vulnerabilities, and use the vulnerabilities to host their files on them. For example, imagine “legitimate-medical-site.net.com” is a real site. The attacker will use the exploit to upload malicious files in there somewhere like “legitimate-medical-site. net. com/qwertasdf/invoice.pdf”.

    If the site gets blocked or shutdown it’s no loss to them.

    Another technique, especially phishing wise, they will have a semi-plausible domain name (e.g. youbank-security-server .con). But they will register heaps of these. There are tonnes of top level domains that do next to no checking. These things cost a few bucks, so having it taken down is not a problem.

    The combination of burner sites and domains mean they have a window of opportunity to run their attacks and scams before other protections kick in.



  • This worked well for me and it gave me a spreadsheet (.csv) of my posts and comments.

    You just go to the linked page, drag the “button” up to your bookmarks bar. Then navigate to your reddit profile and click the bookmark let, select your options and “go” - then wait.

    Mine took about 15 minute to scrub 10 years and about 2000 comments. It missed a few so I manually edited and then deleted those.

    Take note… I’ve heard (anecdotally), if you want your history backup, do not interrupt the process or close the window.