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 Providers (HHS), seems to have been internet hosting the identical sort of content material — principally gay-themed and LGBTQ+ posts — since not less than Might 12, in response to an archived model of the positioning.
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 up to now to host rip-off adverts and hacking providers.
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 website positioning spam web page,” as 404 Media journalist Sam Cole known as it, hosted on wowlazy.com.
HHS didn’t reply to iinfoai’s request for remark.
