- Aug 17, 2017
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A website-cloning operation may be preparing to launch phishing attacks or distribute malware using hundreds of fake websites. At least several hundred popular international websites – including those of Paypal, Buzzfeed, Adobe.com, and Stuff.co.nz – have been copied in an operation that started last month. The cloned sites are currently sitting behind a website address, www.hotelmosteiro.com, that is registered to an address in Beijing.
The fake websites have not been set up in a way that they would currently be visible to regular internet users, but are being indexed by Google's search engine bots. Stuff systems architect Justis Chan, who stumbled across the cloning operation, said the "worst case scenario" was that the websites would be "decloaked" and then used to distribute malware, once they built up their "legitimacy" with Google's search engine.
Full Story Hundreds of websites, including Stuff's, copied in possible prelude to malware attack
The fake websites have not been set up in a way that they would currently be visible to regular internet users, but are being indexed by Google's search engine bots. Stuff systems architect Justis Chan, who stumbled across the cloning operation, said the "worst case scenario" was that the websites would be "decloaked" and then used to distribute malware, once they built up their "legitimacy" with Google's search engine.
Full Story Hundreds of websites, including Stuff's, copied in possible prelude to malware attack
