BrianKrebs on Nostr: Everyone's heard of link shorteners, but did you know about link extenders? Someone ...
Everyone's heard of link shorteners, but did you know about link extenders? Someone forwarded me a curious long ass link that turned out to be malicious (after several redirects) that was created with this service. I could see this being useful for shady marketing companies as well as malware purveyors.
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2026-06-08 20:42:34 UTCEvent JSON
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