{"id":5038,"date":"2024-03-01T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2024-03-01T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:05:53","slug":"github-apps-and-linkedin-pulse-being-abused-by-web-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/01\/github-apps-and-linkedin-pulse-being-abused-by-web-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub Apps and LinkedIn Pulse Being Abused by Web Spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last few days, we have been looking at various aspects of a web spam campaign. We have found that, among other things, websites from various major universities<\/a> have been impacted by this<\/a>. We also found that GitHub and LinkedIn, which are both owned by Microsoft, have been impacted by this and they don’t seem to be doing a great job of catching that.<\/p>\n

One aspect of this involves GitHub Apps. Here is one example of spam pages on there:<\/p>\n

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That, in turn, links to a page on LinkedIn Pulse:<\/p>\n

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You can see that was published a week ago and is still up.<\/p>\n

What is going on with the account that was posted through is unclear. It is listed as a financial services company, but the rest of the description isn’t in line with that:<\/p>\n

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There is another account for what appears to be the same entity that seems more credible, as among other things, it lists them in the music industry<\/p>\n

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