Malicious Website Impersonating Youtube.com

Malicious Website Impersonating Youtube.com

The website below is malicious and impersonates popular video sharing website: YouTube.com. The website has the title "Top 10 Famous Celebrity Sex Scandals" with a picture of Paris Hilton half naked looking at herself and a "Play" button. With a picture like this, a lot of persons will want to click the "Play" to view the video.

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The malicious website is: www1.safevo-army.sh*t .la

The malicious website www1.safevo-army.shit.la

If you click the "Play" button, an Adobe Flash Player image will appear, with a download progress bar. The image will behave as if it is updating your Adobe Flash Player. After the progress bar goes up to a 100%, a "Install Now" button will appear.

The malicious website www1.safevo-army.shit.la displaying Adobe Flash Player download

If you click the "Install Now" button, you will be prompt to download the malicious file scandsk.exe from website www1.firstwmdefense.dnset.com.

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Do not download files from the website or any other websites, unless they are trusted and popular.

If you are browsing the internet and want to know if you are on a legit website instead of a fake, look at your browser address bar and make sure it has the name of the website that you are visiting.

Browser address bar

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