We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them?
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We Know 15,579 Websites Are Infected. How Do We Tell Them? was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 6, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 36 checks on 3 different days. Its best position was #8 of 30, reached on Nov 7, 19:54 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 00:24 UTC.
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German websites are required to have an imprint published on their website that clearly identifies the person behind it as well as their email address. Feed the domain list to an ai and tell it to collect contact addresses. Send them an email. Or look at the CDNs websites are using, then contact the CDN. Or, contact…
Report each domain to the major browser vendors so they can update their list of suspicious sites? I believe the default configuration for suspected spam and phishing and other malicious sites is that the user gets a red warning page that they have to click through first. Website owner would either get notifications…
Let's say you get the javascript submitted to virus total and it holds the hash as suspicious or malicious, then hopefully that gives organizations in the network or execution chain ability to block them from being fetched or exexuted by the browser, probably too far fetched.
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 00:24 UTC, after 3 days of trending.
#8 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 7, 19:54 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 6, 2026 and has been on the list on 3 days (36 checks) since.
163 points and 138 comments; submitted by speckx on Nov 6, 2026.