>>1295489Regardless of the payload's intention, the fact of the matter is that the attack did succeed in taking down the signal to noise ratio. It doesn't take a genius to adopt the code or methodology to adapt it towards other means.
Heck, within the same time frame, two of the spam attacks if they had decided to merge the actual content, would have succeeded in advertising for some shit by using the image to contain the URL or message and obfuscate the spam's comment text using capture and replay.
.hta in general needs to be discontinued since the design is such a massive security vulnerability, but that doesn't detract from the stupidity in idiots renaming a file to an extension they do not know or understand and executing it.
