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В кластер входят документы о намеренном использовании механизмов защиты и репутации для нанесения вреда другим или введения в заблуждение, но не входят методы защиты контента с помощью состязательного машинного обучения.
Общие признаки: манипуляция антивирусами, ложные жалобы, использование доверия к вендорам, атаки на репутацию сайтов
Группа выше: Халатность и провалы в безопасности
Смысл: The text warns website owners that malicious competitors can easily get their sites blocked by antivirus software by spamming fake phishing reports to services like PhishTank, which then propagate to major security vendors.
Security vendors' reliance on unverified user reports allows competitors to maliciously block legitimate websites by spamming fake phishing complaints.
Смысл: The text exposes a case of a reputable tech company (Agava) attempting to distribute deceptive adware by leveraging the perceived legitimacy of antivirus vendors to trick both partners and end-users.
An author exposes Agava's attempt to distribute deceptive adware by claiming it was 'approved' by antivirus companies like Kaspersky.
Смысл: The text describes a conflict between a developer (Novikov) and a group of spammers. The spammers threaten to destroy Novikov's projects by spamming high-authority .gov sites with his links to trigger hosting bans, but Novikov uses their attack to identify and collect a database of the spammers' own vulnerable targets.
A developer turns a spammer's threat to trigger hosting bans into an opportunity to harvest a database of the spammers' own vulnerable targets.