20,000+ Cloudflare Pages Domains Hosting Tech Support Scam Shit? Of Course They Are.
Right, here’s the ugly version: some festering little scam operation tied to Help TDS and linked to Hotejka has apparently abused more than 20,000 Cloudflare Pages domains to push fake tech support scam pages at unsuspecting victims. Because apparently the internet wasn’t already clogged enough with garbage.
The basic scam is the same old dishonest crap dressed up in slightly different paint: victim lands on a malicious page, gets hit with alarming fake warnings, popup nonsense, or full-screen “your computer is infected” bullshit, and is then pressured into calling a fake support number. On the other end is some parasite pretending to be Microsoft, Windows support, or whatever trusted brand they think will fool the panicked and the clueless.
What makes this one especially irritating is the scale. We’re not talking about a couple of throwaway domains run by amateurs in a basement full of stale crisps and bad decisions. We’re talking about tens of thousands of domains hosted through a legitimate cloud platform, which gives the scam infrastructure reach, resilience, and a shiny veneer of legitimacy. Bloody marvellous.
According to the report, the campaign used Cloudflare Pages as the hosting layer for these scam pages, showing once again that attackers love legitimate services because they blend in better and are harder to block without causing collateral damage. That’s the fun bit for defenders: if you block too much, users scream. If you block too little, scammers keep printing money. Same old damned circus.
The infrastructure was reportedly linked to Help TDS, a traffic distribution system. In plain English, that means the bastards use a traffic-routing setup to decide who gets sent where, helping them filter victims, redirect traffic, avoid scrutiny, and keep the scam machine humming along like an overpriced printer nobody wanted but everyone is somehow forced to support.
The mention of Hotejka ties the operation to previously observed scam infrastructure, suggesting this isn’t random chaos but part of a broader, organized ecosystem of criminal bullshit. These people don’t just slap together one scam page and call it a day. They build, rotate, distribute, and scale. Like a startup, except instead of disrupting an industry, they’re just being complete shits.
The whole thing highlights a few painfully predictable truths:
First, tech support scams are still alive because fear works. Flash a fake alert, scream about viruses, lock the browser, and enough people will panic and call.
Second, attackers adore trusted cloud platforms. If it’s cheap, scalable, and reputable, some scumbag will weaponize it.
Third, massive abuse of legitimate infrastructure makes detection and takedown slower, messier, and more annoying for everyone except the criminals.
For normal users, the advice is the same bloody advice it always is: if a webpage claims your device is infected and demands you call “support,” it’s almost certainly a scam. Real security warnings do not usually behave like a drunk burglar shouting through your monitor. Don’t call the number. Don’t install remote access tools. Don’t hand over your card details to some con artist named “Kevin from Windows Security Department.”
For defenders and platform operators, this is yet another reminder that abuse monitoring, domain reputation tracking, infrastructure correlation, and rapid takedowns matter. Because if you leave the bins unemptied long enough, eventually the rats start running the bloody building.
Anyway, this whole mess reminds me of a user who once called in screaming that their machine said it had 47 viruses and only a hotline number could save them. Turned out they’d clicked a pop-up, called the scammers, and paid them to install remote access software and “fix” the problem by disabling half their security tools. Then they rang us because “the computer felt weird.” No shit, Sherlock.
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https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/help-tds-linked-to-hotejka-as-20000.html