Tiny Island Atoll’s Domain Used in Widespread Ad Fraud

guest · Sep 5, 2018

Tiny Island Atoll’s Domain Used in Widespread Ad Fraud
The campaign is believed to bring in close to $22,000 per month for bad actors.
September 5, 2018
https://threatpost.com/tiny-island-atolls-domain-used-in-widespread-ad-fraud/137179/

A scam campaign involving “.tk” domains has been active since at least May 2018, redirecting unsuspecting users to fake blogger sites that are collectively bringing in close to $22,000 per month in advertising revenue.

However, .tk domains are more than cheap, they’re free, making them very attractive for anyone globally who may be looking to stand up a fast web-attack infrastructure without caring about URL branding. Researchers at Zscaler in July found a network of thousands of .tk sites built to do just that.

The campaign first came to light when the team discovered a series of legitimate websites that had been compromised with redirection code [...] the researchers noted in an analysis last Friday; interestingly, for some of the sites, the code doesn’t redirect for every hit; instead, redirection takes place when a random number “3” appears.

Zscaler researchers said that traffic is steadily increasing to the scam sites; and the activity, as pervasive and growing as it seems to be, could be the tip of the atoll, so to speak, for the malefactors behind the scams.
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