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Spirit Airlines' Abandoned Azure Booking APIs and Exposed Phishing Domains(braydenbte.substack.com)
12 points by BTheEPIC 16 hours ago | 9 comments
dlcarrier 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

    Excluding Linux clients, as they are likely crawling bots…
Is this why so many web servers assume I'm a bot? They often don't even give me a captcha, they just straight up deny entry.

Should I put Windows or OS X in my user agent?

BTheEPIC 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

Honestly, that would likely help. I feel like, even with the flood of people leaving Windows, Linux is still pretty stereotyped. I generalized my numbers in my post as an oversimplification, but I had no idea that web servers were still actively denying Linux clients without a captcha.

BTheEPIC 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When I heard about Spirit's liquidation today, I dug into their web infrastructure. After discovering that their entire booking flow and Azure API was left exactly as it was before their announcement, I grabbed 3 obvious phishing domains for $11.48 each to block malicious actors.

AmazingEveryDay 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's like they didn't even consult an LLM on how to perform an orderly shutdown! Thanks for the interesting read, I'd be a bit paranoid registering those domains though you seem to have benign intentions.

bigfatkitten 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair, if I’m working for a company that just went bust, I’m already an unsecured creditor who is probably facing a long battle to be paid what I’m already owed.

I’m sure as hell not going a hang around for free to do an orderly shutdown of their IT infrastructure.

BTheEPIC 15 hours ago | parent [-]

That's exactly why I don't blame their IT team at all. Truthfully, the reason this story intrigued me was just how little preparation the higher-ups made beforehand. For a company that's been in a bankruptcy case since Aug 2025, you'd think they'd have made some preparations for the worst.

BTheEPIC 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Truthfully, I just felt that those three domains were way too predictable to leave open, especially if I wrote about them. I have documented that I have done nothing but redirect to their own site, though it might still be a risk.

onetokeoverthe 10 hours ago | parent [-]

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