Why Would They Attack My Website?

“Why would hackers go after my website, it’s just a brochure site?” I’m asked this often.

Hackers who set up phishing attacks are looking for websites that are not blacklisted.

Here is a phishing attack email I received this morning:

It looks pretty official, doesn’t it? One’s first reaction is to click on the Get Billing Summary link. That link however points to:

http://paintestimatingcourse.com/?4a82=GJMdlaMuBRTODEUUBGOCQbi

The website paintestimatingcourse.com has been hacked and contains code that is designed to gather unsuspecting people’s personal information. Within a few days however,the paintestimatingcourse.com website will get blacklisted and anyone clicking on the Get Billing Summary link will get the screen shown at the top of this post.  At which point the hackers will be switch to using the next website in their list.

Creators of phishing attacks therefore are always looking for clean websites that they can infect.

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