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Hacked URL families need regex that owners cannot write

Owners cannot write the regular expression that matches a hacked URL family, such as spam paths with parameters or suffixes.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 8 September 2023 · last reported 12 December 2023

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

After a site is hacked, owners find thousands of spam URLs that share a pattern, such as query strings, endings like html or htm, or folders like getid or c.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.