- A page of Nvidia events has been diverted with a spam generated by AI
- NPR, Stanford and certain sites of the US government have also been taken over
- Spam seems to be explicit but not malicious
Several web domains belonging to Nvidia have been diverted to show explicit content and generated by AI in a spam campaign which also targeted the sites of the NPR, Stanford and American government.
The NVIDIA page, events.nsv.nvidia[,]com was now removed, but was an event site. The page has been taken care of and more than 62,000 articles generated by the AI have been published, mainly containing incorrect or incomplete information on popular research subjects such as video game gusts or restaurant recommendations.
Elsewhere, an area belonging to the American Department of Health and Social Services (HHS) advising on vaccines has also been targeted, being degraded in the same way.
Wowlazy spam campaign
It is not clear which has diverted the site or the goal behind, because the slal Ai does not seem to have a theme or a coherent angle. The links of the pages directly to a “page of nonsense referencing spam”.[.]com.
A large part of the content seems to have been apparently explicit, but many was also “entirely trivial” – the spam campaign was discovered thanks to a technologist who was looking for “best portland cat cafes” on DuckDuckGo and was directed to events.[,]COM site and a spam page on chat cafes.
This is not the first time that cybercriminals have diverted websites in order to publish their own content, but it generally contains a certain type of infostealer malware to gain profits from spam campaigns – but as far as we could see, this was not the case on this occasion.
SEO seems to be a tool whose cybercriminals take advantage of in order to deliver (or not) malicious software to a wider audience. To mitigate the risk of this type of attack, users must deactivate the push notifications of the sites they do not know / that do not trust, and be very cautious with unknown links.
Techradar Pro contacted CDC, NPR, Stanford and Nvidia to comment but has not yet received an answer.
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