alt Hacker NewsWhat’s the purpose of cloning a website like this? Is the idea to add links to other sites that get ranked marginally higher if the fake site gets popular? Because even if you cloned 1000 websites, I can’t imagine it making a big difference.
What’s the purpose of cloning a website like this? Is the idea to add links to other sites that get ranked marginally higher if the fake site gets popular? Because even if you cloned 1000 websites, I can’t imagine it making a big difference.
Pure speculation, this could be part of a North Korean job seeking program where they masquerade as the original blogger. They can use the copied site as proof they're a real person. Or it's part of a long-con social engineering project.
They could put out a legit-looking blog post that has a malicious GitHub command that installs malware, and social engineer someone into running it.