Subj : US government vaccine hub
To   : All
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Jun 12 2025 09:20 am

US government vaccine hub, Nvidia events page abused in cyberattack spewing
out AI slop

Date:
Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:04:00 +0000

Description:
Thousands of AI-generated articles have been posted on major websites.

FULL STORY

Several Nvidia-owned web domains were hijacked to show explicit and
AI-generated content in a spam campaign that also targeted NPR, Stanford, and
US Government sites. 

The Nvidia page, events.nsv.nvidia[,]com has now been taken down, but was
seemingly an events site. The page was taken over and more than 62,000
AI-generated articles were posted, primarily containing incorrect or
incomplete information about popular search topics like video game round-ups
or restaurant recommendations. 

Elsewhere, a domain belonging to the US Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) advising on vaccines was also targeted, being defaced in a
similar fashion.

WowLazy spam campaign 

Its not clear who hijacked the site or the purpose behind it, since the AI
slop doesnt seem to have a consistent theme or angle. The links in the pages
direct to a nonsense SEO spam page stocks.wowlazy[.]com. 

Much of the content appears to have been apparently explicit, but much was
also entirely mundane - the spam campaign was discovered thanks to a
technologist who was searching for best Portland cat cafes on DuckDuckGo and
was directed to the events.nsv.nvidia[,]com site and a spam page about cat
cafes. 

This isnt the first time that c ybercriminals have hijacked websites in order
to post their own content, but usually this contains some type of malware of
infostealer to gain profit from the spam campaigns - but as far as we can 
see, that wasnt the case on this occasion. 

SEO seems to be a tool that cybercriminals are taking advantage of in order 
to deliver malware (or not) to a wider audience. To mitigate the risk from
this type of attack, users should disable push notifications from sites they
dont know/trust, and be very cautious with unfamiliar links. 

TechRadar Pro did reach out to the CDC, NPR, Stanford, and Nvidia for comment
but havent yet received a response. 

Via 404media

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/us-government-vaccine-hub-nvidia-events
-page-abused-in-cyberattack-spewing-out-ai-slop

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