Comment by pseudotrash | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pseudotrash | Hacker News Reader

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> "Watch Oppenheimer Free" on Google returns mostly malware and fake media-purchase websites

In the EU much of our malware and blogspam is hosted by the EU government itself. We are way ahead here lolol

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=watch%20oppenheimer%20...

https://road-safety-charter.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files...

Edit: this is the same domain that hosts documents on the latest laws for cybersecurity (Radio Equipment Directive, Cyber Resilience Act, ...). And the same body that airs strong opinions on client side scanning. The same org that wants to be in charge of a EU wide database of vulnerabilities so it can tell you if your patch management process is too slow. ENISA were informed about these problems over 8 months ago. Meanwhile they are publicly ridiculed on social media for not fixing it.

For people who didn't get the joke: these are indeed "hosted" by things like Google Docs, Scribd... but also by EU government websites.

But not willingly!

And yep, the bulk of Google results for me are those. Half those, half stupid blogspam, half fake-legitimate websites claiming to be legit sellers of media.

I've never seen this domain pop up in my searches. Most of the links on Google end up at a 404, though.

Who's benefiting from these weird PDF uploads? Is it the copyright industry trying to make it impossible to pirate their movies? The PDFs don't even contain a link to the ad fraud site that's supposedly generating these.

They have a link, the whole image of the video player is the link

If they were using it to educate people about the consequences of piracy, I could understand why they would host that, but that's not the case here. What is the purpose of this?

Not sure if unpatched arbitrary file-upload vulnerabilities that rexult in blogspam and hosted malware, or doctored documents do serve any purpose? But maybe I'm just not thinking adversarial enough :-/

Lol sorry, I missed your sarcasm before. I thought the EU would actually upload this themselves for some bigger purpose. I interpreted too much.

My bad and apologies for not /s tagging it

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