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. Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS), seems to have been internet hosting the identical type of content material — largely gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts — since at the least Might 12, in keeping with an archived model of the location.
It’s unclear who’s chargeable for it, or what’s the function of this defacement aside from pushing AI-generated slop spam. Web sites hosted on official U.S. authorities domains have been hijacked previously 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 College, all of which redirect to “a nonsense web optimization spam web page,” as 404 Media journalist Sam Cole referred to as it, hosted on wowlazy.com.
HHS didn’t reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
