I just saw this and felt I should share it. I’m sure most people here wouldn’t fall for it but it can’t hurt to make sure 👍

Edit: I just wanted to add, I have no idea what this tried to copy. I’m using Firefox on Linux which is perhaps why it didn’t make it to my clipboard 🤷

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    My brother ran into this while car shopping on a reputable Utah based Toyota dealership’s website. It was a powershell script that downloaded and executed something from a base64 encoded Bitly URL. Bitly took down the URL so we couldn’t see where it was redirecting.

    It seems like attackers are embedding this in vulnerable legit websites

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      Yeah, some wordpress themes have vulnerable bits that allow attackers to inject cross site scripting attacks into the page via various methods. Some have pivoted to using wordpress plugins which is a newer method I don’t entirely understand yet.

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      Thanks, that’s very interesting to know. I assumed it was just a malicious site before.