Fake website trying to scam

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I got an email asking to advertise Darktable on my channel and the website they mentioned was darktable.io

Looks like a scam trying to do some phishing activity. So, just wanted to bring it to everyone’s notice.

Have a good day!

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darktable.io does seem to have the same content as darktable.org. I don’t know if it’s official or not. @darix might be able to answer. Definitely goes to a different ip address.

Edit: it has a “subscribe to newsletter” thing at the bottom, which is definitely not ours.

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and a link to a privacy policy, that doesn’t exist on the original website…

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The download (windows) links to a google drive page. Could have been tampered with. The domain was registered only on Dec 19th 2021 - less than a week ago. Registered to REDACTED FOR PRIVACY

https://whois.domaintools.com/darktable.io

BTW, even Pixls is mentioned at the bottom of tha landing page, of course linked wrongly.

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It’s hosted by Namecheap, and would be againt their AUP - can someone with official capacity report it to them via https://support.namecheap.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit/RenderForm/237

Also, it might be a good idea to report the domain as malicious at Google Safe Browsing: Report a Malware Page and Report an unsafe site - Microsoft Security Intelligence

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Has anyone tried it in a sandbox yet? If I get a chance I will try it tomorrow. Someone I know gave a link to a free one https://app.any.run/

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Ok, she just showed me how to run it. The result was this error message
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And here is a replay of the screenshots along the way:

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Of note, it seems like darktable [dot] com is being squatted?

When I got filmulator.org I also got filmulator.com and had it redirect…

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Looks like it’s down now

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Did someone report it?

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afaik that one is totally unrelated to darktable (the program we’re talking about here). IMHO (or better IMHM, in my humble memories) it was a website of some sort of restaurant (named “darktable”) where you eat in the dark, get served by blind people. But my memories might mislead me here…

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Yes I reported them for phishing and scams.

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