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divbzeroyesterday at 9:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

There doesn’t seem to be an ulterior motive beyond “Muahaha, see the trouble I can cause!”


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batiudramiyesterday at 10:51 PM

A classical virus, from the good old days. None of this botnet/bitcoin mining in the background nonsense.

creatoneztoday at 12:23 AM

No one actually knows what the payload from basemetrika.ru contains, though. So it's possible it was originally intended to be more damaging. But no matter what it would have caught attention super fast, so there's probably an upper limit to how sophisticated it could have been.