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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack


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  • Archive.today blacklisted, 695,000 Wikipedia links likely to be affected
  • The website has been linked to a DDoS attack targeting a blogger
  • Wikipedia argues Archive.today also changed site content, rendering it unreliable

Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.today and more than 695,000 links will be removed from around 400,000 English-language pages after Archive.today was used to facilitate a DDoS attack.

AWikipedia thread outlined how Archive.today allegedly inserted malicious JavaScript code to use visitors' browsers in a DDoS attack against a third party.

Wikipedia explained that user safety outweighs convenience, and that a site that uses visitors for DDoS attacks is "untrustworthy."

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