Was searching Google for a Giant Bomb video and came across a result from giantbomb . gamefoxy . com/. I'm assuming its some kind of malicious site. It just shows a strange/broken css version of the site. Anyone know what's up with this.?
What is giantbomb (dot) gamefoxy (dot) com ?
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I was wondering this as well. Their server is in Poland (nothing inherently wrong with that but CBS/CNet is an american corp) and whois returns a generic domain registrar.
I am guessing that it is some shady SEO-hijacking scraped mirror of CNET's gaming sites (Gamespot, Gamefaqs, Giantbomb) but who knows?
It's a site that mirrors pages from other sites and makes them look legit, but they will inject their own ads and redirect clicks to a variety of shady garbage. It isn't just Giant Bomb that these sites target, and there are a ton of these on the internet. They often will come up in Google search results when looking for message board activity. You can try it if you want; I went to a random Gamefoxy page in a Windows VM and clicked on your profile link and it sent me to an online casino instead. It is essentially a way to trick people who don't pay attention into clicking on ads and URLs that are probably far worse than just spam.
If you are using Google to search for Giant Bomb content specifically, use this search operator to restrict your results to Giant Bomb only and avoid links from garbage sites like Gamefoxy and their ilk:
searchString site:giantbomb.com
I recommend blocking the entire Gamefoxy domain at the router level. I absolutely would classify sites like these as malicious.
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