this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2024
79 points (92.5% liked)

Technology

73287 readers
4890 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
79
(Edit - it's over, for now.) Why are there so many cracked software spam posts in the last few days? (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ianovic69@feddit.uk to c/technology@lemmy.world
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I know spam posts have been around for a while but not like this.

I'm in the Fediverse for the lack of advertising as much as anything else but this may as well be R****t.

Apologies for the rant, please lmk if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No idea what a "cracked software spam post" would look or be like but I don't think I've ever seen one.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I've seen one today and one yesterday. It's basically a post saying "Here's this great software that does this and this. Download a cracked version here for free!"

[–] ianovic69@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Each post is about a cracked version of a usually popular piece of commercial software. There's been loads of them.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haven't seen a single one

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I often sort by new and saw a lot. If you’re sorting by active it might’ve been removed by the time you got to it.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Ah ok. Yeah I usually sort by Top 6hr

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s likely malware inside that cracked software too, as it’s being promoted by the poster