Comment by gkoberger
20 hours ago
They're adding backlinks to other sites. They're either making revenue from those sites, or (more likely) selling backlinks to unsavory products.
20 hours ago
They're adding backlinks to other sites. They're either making revenue from those sites, or (more likely) selling backlinks to unsavory products.
Article: "It only showed the spam to Googlebot, making it invisible to site owners." - so it was really only about SEO for themselves or their customers.
With regards to "Your Ad Here" type services using crypto: are Adshares, Coinzilla, Bitmedia or A-Ads any good? Perhaps micropayments are what makes this space interesting right now.
I suppose it's the "unsavory" aspect of the things being peddled that can make it hard/expensive to get visible inbound links.
Article: "It resolved its C2 domain through an Ethereum smart contract, querying public blockchain RPC endpoints. Traditional domain takedowns would not work because the attacker could update the smart contract to point to a new domain at any time."
I wonder if that scheme be used for anything positive, like avoiding censorship? That's pretty important if you are sharing information about new inventions around, say, free energy as an antidote to cost-of-living and the "scourge of AI."
Backlinks and ads are completely different topics.