Gambling Gone Viral: 150,000 Websites Hijacked by Malicious JavaScript!
In a twist of digital mischief, a campaign has compromised 150,000 legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript to promote Chinese-language gambling platforms. This sneaky operation uses an iframe injection trick to turn browsers into casinos. It’s not just a gamble—it’s a full-house of cyber shenanigans!
Hot Take:
In the world of cybercrime, it seems like gambling is the house that always wins. These cyber crooks have turned the internet into a Las Vegas strip of shady redirects and a hacker’s paradise. If only they used their skills for good, imagine the potential! But alas, here we are, with the digital equivalent of a casino heist, where the chips are your personal data, and the jackpot is a popup for a gambling site in Mandarin.
Key Points:
- Approximately 150,000 websites have been compromised with malicious JavaScript promoting Chinese-language gambling platforms.
- The campaign employs iframe injections, full-screen overlays, and redirections to deceive users.
- A variant of the attack impersonates legitimate betting sites using official logos and branding.
- GoDaddy reveals a separate, long-running malware operation, DollyWay World Domination, affecting over 20,000 sites.
- The attacks utilize sophisticated traffic distribution and obfuscation techniques to redirect users to scam pages.
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