AlphaBay DDoS page forwards to reddit. Why? CAPTCHA was exactly the same on 2 different URLs.

At first I thought it was a fluke, or a bug, but it just happened to me like 5 times. I used several of the alphabay URLs. Sometimes I got the DDoS page first, then straight to reddit. I tried a different URL and got DDoS page, AND THE SAME EXACT CAPTCHA I GOT THE TIME BEFORE. The same one.
Wack.
Redirected to reddit.
Sometimes I got the login page, i'd type in my info, then it'd take me to a DDoS page and then to reddit.
I finally got on, changed my password, finalized an order. New computer, changed my reddit password just in case.
Is it a bad node? Or is it some weird idea AlphaBay had that during DDoS they should just send people to reddit?


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[2 Points] None:

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[1 Points] PhriskyDingough:

It's in the HTML code of the DDoS page. <input type="hidden" name="reff" value="https://www.reddit.com" /> I'm not an HTML wiz though, so I can't figure out what the code is saying.


[1 Points] honestlyimeanreally:

I have heard of people designing a service (e.g. AlphaBay) and then stealing another service's captcha to serve, and when they're properly solved it uses that information to get through the targeted services capctha.

Essentially, you're getting real users to crack another site's capctha unwillingly and from there you can do a lot of "automated" malicious activity(spam, DDoS), provided you have an active userbase steadily cracking the captcha.

Whether or not that is happening... I will look into it.


[1 Points] auto587643:

AlphaBay's DDOS protection thing is buggy as hell. Not surprised on this one.