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arcfour 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains l...

As discussed in the article, threat actors are using a botnet to game the system by repeatedly issuing queries for the domains; the list is intended to represent the top 100 domains resolved by legitimate users (and legitimate bots, I assume), not just "who can make the most queries to CloudFlare for a domain".

charcircuit 7 months ago [–]

So why not get rid of "gamed" requests? Why would gaming it be fine as long as your domain isn't malware related?

arcfour 7 months ago | [–]

Why not just disqualify these obviously not in the top 100 domains that are cheating and also host malicious content which has the same effect...??

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