The site googleapis.com is a domain owned by Google that is used to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to Google products and services. These APIs allow developers to access and integrate the functionality of Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube, and many other Google products into their applications1. However, some cyber criminals use this domain to launch ‘tech support’ scams that try to trick people into paying for fake or unnecessary services or products2.
If you want to learn more about Google Cloud APIs, you can visit this page or this page. You can also find some examples of how to use the client libraries for some popular APIs on this page. If you are curious about what other Google internet hosts are used for, you can check out this discussion.
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how come it doesn't connect if I go to the www
Searching for: why www.googleapis.com does not connect
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That’s a good question. It seems that the domain www.googleapis.com is not intended to be accessed directly by a web browser, but rather by applications that use the Google APIs. If you try to go to the www prefix, you will get a network error because the domain does not have a valid SSL certificate for that subdomain1. However, if you use a different prefix, such as maps.googleapis.com or drive.googleapis.com, you will be able to connect to the API service. You can also use a tool like curl to test the connection to the domain without the www prefix1. For example, you can try this command in your terminal:
This will show you the details of the HTTP request and response, and you will see that the connection is successful. You will also see the server certificate information, which shows that the domain is owned by Google and verified by Google Internet Authority G21. I hope this helps you understand why www.googleapis.com does not connect. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me. 😊
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Looks like a username of lmalikdiali, betcha he uses it elsewhere on the internet. lol. Let's look around.
Oopsie daisey. Looks like he's coming from Lithuania. That's by Poland.
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Hovering the mouse cursor over where they want me to click to, looks like
https://storage.googleapis.com/lmalikdiali/hrefly.html#?Z289MSZzMT0xNzExNDIxJnMyPTMwNjM0OTE1OSZzMz1HTEI=
But I ain't gonna click that to check. lol.
googleapis.com
what's the site
googleapis.com
Searching for: what is googleapis.com used for
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The site googleapis.com is a domain owned by Google that is used to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to Google products and services. These APIs allow developers to access and integrate the functionality of Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube, and many other Google products into their applications1. However, some cyber criminals use this domain to launch ‘tech support’ scams that try to trick people into paying for fake or unnecessary services or products2.
If you want to learn more about Google Cloud APIs, you can visit this page or this page. You can also find some examples of how to use the client libraries for some popular APIs on this page. If you are curious about what other Google internet hosts are used for, you can check out this discussion.
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how come it doesn't connect if I go to the www
Searching for: why www.googleapis.com does not connect
Generating answers for you…
That’s a good question. It seems that the domain www.googleapis.com is not intended to be accessed directly by a web browser, but rather by applications that use the Google APIs. If you try to go to the www prefix, you will get a network error because the domain does not have a valid SSL certificate for that subdomain1. However, if you use a different prefix, such as maps.googleapis.com or drive.googleapis.com, you will be able to connect to the API service. You can also use a tool like curl to test the connection to the domain without the www prefix1. For example, you can try this command in your terminal:
curl -v https://googleapis.com
This will show you the details of the HTTP request and response, and you will see that the connection is successful. You will also see the server certificate information, which shows that the domain is owned by Google and verified by Google Internet Authority G21. I hope this helps you understand why www.googleapis.com does not connect. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me. 😊
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Looks like a username of lmalikdiali, betcha he uses it elsewhere on the internet. lol. Let's look around.
Oopsie daisey. Looks like he's coming from Lithuania. That's by Poland.
https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/62567
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Our mission is to help make Web safer by providing a central blacklist for webmasters, system administrators, and other interested parties to report and find IP addresses that have been associated with malicious activity online.
You can report an IP address associated with malicious activity, or check to see if an IP address has been reported, by using the search box above."
Lithuania 185.80.129.160 11 Sep 2023 https://storage.googleapis.com/lmalikdiali/hrefly.html
Content:
<script> var tarcking_param = window.location.href.split('#')[1]; var srv_ip = "185.80.129.160"; if(!tarcking_param){ alert("please set tracking params!"); }else{ document.location.href = 'http://'+srv_ip+'/?'+tarcking_param; } </script>
Malicious, see
https://urlscan.io/search/#185.80.129.160 show less
Email Spam
Proably some "hacker" from india or something.
If it was the government, you would get emails like this, prolly.
https://ibb.co/nzZpB7D