Mal.Metrica Redirects Users to Scam Sites

One of our analysts recently identified a new Mal.Metrica redirect scam on compromised websites, but one that requires a little bit of effort on the part of the victim. It’s another lesson for web users to be careful what they click on, and to be wary of anything suspicious that pops up in their browser — even if it’s coming from a website that they would otherwise trust.

Please verify that you are a human

When visiting an infected website we are prompted with a (fake) human verification prompt:

These prompts are quite common on the web these days, and most users would probably not think twice about clicking on it.

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