Comment by mahboi
6 hours ago
"It was discovered by a member of the mod team today that an article archived by archive.today had injected malware links into the archived article."
Idk, maybe this is just a typo, but grammatically this is saying the article injected the links.
Go to https://archive.ph/jXv3A#selection-5079.208-5079.212 Click on "Filed on Tuesday" and it will redirect you to a site telling you to download something.
(To be fair, that isn't the only redirect so you might need to click it a few times.)
It immediately stands out that that link is to a /wp-content URL. AKA wordpress. AKA PHP. AKA very recently vulnerable (and perhaps still)...
Whereas other links (e.g. the immediate next one to arxiv) seem unaffected.
Thanks, that's pretty much all I was looking for. Was able to reproduce but then started getting 429s.
I reproduced it too but was hoping to get a log, now all I get is 429 as well.
Just for the sake of preserving what I did see, the URL linked in the text was:
and that now seems to have been purged from the archive.today cache, as this page says "No results":
https://archive.ph/https://schenklawfirm.com/wp-content/uplo...
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I think they meant it as in "an article archived by archive.today had malware links injected into the archived article."