Hyperlink Auditing Pings Being Used to Perform DDoS Attacks

[LASER_oneXM]

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hyperlink-auditing-pings-being-used-to-perform-ddos-attacks/

Researchers have found that the HTML feature called hyperlink auditing, or pings, is being used to perform DDoS attacks against various sites. This feature is normally used by sites to track link clicks, but is now found to be abused by attackers to send a massive amount of web requests to sites in order to take them offline.

For those who are unfamiliar with hyperlink auditing, it is an HTML feature that allows sites to track clicks on links. To create a hyperlink auditing URL, or ping, you can simply create a normal hyperlink HTML tag, but also include a ping="" variable as shown below. ... ... ... [/QUOTE]

 

[SeriousHoax]

The good thing is that uBlock Origin protects against hyperlink auditing by default.

 

[sepik]

Does Nano Adblocker protect this too, because its based on uBO?

 

[SeriousHoax]

Does Nano Adblocker protect this too, because its based on uBO?

I don't think so because the Privacy section in the settings is greyed out. It's ticked but the settings can't be modified. Anyway, I don't see any reason to use Nano Adblocker over uBlock Origin. What's your reason?

 

[silversurfer]

Chromium-browsers => chrome://flags

 

[sepik]

Well, im using Nano Adblocker because ive seen some tests, that its memory usage is a lower than uBO and its faster, while maintainin uBO capability.