Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5079138-20161126053523

OK so I was playing around with a Discord bot's google search feature and then suddenly it showed a link to some site called WikiEden. The URL in question is http://gta.wikieden.com/wiki/Dialogues_in_GTA_V

The description shown by Discord preview looks normal.



However, when I click on it, it seems to redirect to some random spam like assigntraffic.com, twit5ter.com, etc. and it doesn't show the real content, even using something like Psiphon doesn't help (usually it's the ISP that's doing this sometimes, so using Psiphon clears the DNS-related mess, but it doesnt seem to be the case this time).

Then I decided to use Google's web cache to figure out what the hell's going on over here, as well as to see the original content, and...



Surprise, surprise! It seems to be a Wikia page (which is actually this page). The picture on the Discord preview even shows that it's hosted on Wikia Vignette.



However, judging by the redirects made by it, it seems to be a spammy mirror hosted by someone (who's probably doing it to earn revenue or something, maybe even inject its visitors with malware).

Whois lookup results for wikia.com and wikieden.com are different (the links given are from who.is), meaning that wikieden is run by someone else.

The question is, does the Wikia staff know about this? I mean, this is probably an attempt of malvertising as well as impersonation of the Wikia brand. Basically it's deceptive, and might as well be reported. So far I didn't get any malware infections by this, but just be careful in case this thing actually spreads some kinda malware. 