• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Funny how the author immediately decided to shut everything down when he realized the number of peer/torrents still sending requests to the domain.

    • evidences@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Orphaned domains like this are interesting, there was a defcon talk, I think, where the presenter bought a bunch of blacklisted orphaned domains just to see if anything would try and connect to them. They got hit with so many botnet clients trying to phone home.

      • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Yeah those orphaned domains are a goldmine for security researchers, there was a similar talk at blackhat where they showed how expired domains from major companies still recieved auth tokens and sensitive data for months after expiry.