I have confirmed archive.ph, which archive.today redirects to, has malicious code which attempts to spam gyrovague.com with requests. The code I independently verified matches the code in the Hacker News post.
Behind CloudFlare: https://tria.ge/260116-d3jafadj81/behavioral1
Do not use archive.today, archive.is, and archive.ph. By accessing these websites, you are donating your bandwidth to a botnet of unknown origin and purpose.
Original source:
https://social.coop/@eb/115902323900229756
An emergency update to the Malicious Website Blocklist has been made to counter this threat. An emergency update is currently in the works to fix the emergency update as it is in the wrong place (I want to link to this toot in the update, so waiting to commit until I post).
So the mysterious person behind archive.today is very likely to be "Masha Rabinovich." A 2023 investigation from Jani Patokallio theorized this much
However recently a few things happened over the past few days. A HN user noticed that archive.today visitors are being used in a botnet staging a DDoS attack against Jani's website, and Jani has received a bogus C&D.
Who was the HN user who noticed this? Well... 馃У
