A U.S. authorities web site designed to tell the general public about vaccines has been defaced and now hosts apparently AI-generated spam.
The area, which belongs to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), seems to have been internet hosting the identical form of content material — largely gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts — since no less than May 12, in response to an archived model of the positioning.
It’s unclear who’s liable for it, or what’s the function of this defacement aside from pushing AI-generated slop spam. Websites hosted on official U.S. authorities domains have been hijacked prior to now to host rip-off adverts and hacking companies.
On Wednesday, 404 Media reported that the vaccines HHS web site is a part of a wider spam operation that features web sites owned by NPR, Nvidia, and Stanford University, all of which redirect to “a nonsense search engine optimization spam web page,” as 404 Media journalist Sam Cole known as it, hosted on wowlazy.com.
HHS didn’t reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
