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oof. running IE11 exploits (feels illegal here...), elevating to vbscript, testing the boundaries of the JIT, checking for screenshotting, observing for brave browser and communicating with two shady blank page sites...

not since the port scanning from ebay have i seen something this reprehensible

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> not since the port scanning from ebay have i seen something this reprehensible

That was the same company/script btw.

WhiteOps/HUMAN was behind the eBay thing too?

I know this may seem like a technical nit-pick, but it wasn't eBay specifically going out of their way to port scan your local machine. It's just that they decided to use one of the many third-party products in the marketplace to scan for bot activity that uses this technique. Protecting against bots is big business and the companies offering these services do all sorts of seemingly shady things to figure out if it's a bot or human visiting a site.

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