And for the love of god, DO NOT GO TO THAT WEBSITE BECAUSE YOU’RE CURIOUS. CHROME WILL AUTOFILL INTO THE SITE BEFORE YOU CAN REACT AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OR HOW MUCH.
This should be standard advice for any phishing warning, unless it’s on a forum where everyone already has tons of cybersecurity experience. Do not click it, do not type it in, don’t click any 80k link for a while without inspecting it first. This will probably target other links too, ASAP, so just make sure to check every link that you’re clicking.
Why would that happen? If the domain is different, Chrome wouldn’t fill in any information from another domain. For me it just redirects to a run-of-the-mill domain squatting type website on yet another domain. Could be that it checked some of my browser settings and decided that the risk was too high that I’m a security researcher, and so redirected to an innocuous website. I haven’t tried hard to fool it.
For me it just redirects to a run-of-the-mill domain squatting type website on yet another domain.
Yeah, it’s changed to point to something a lot less directly malicious since I last checked this morning. (But, well, no reason to think it won’t change again tomorrow.)
And for the love of god, DO NOT GO TO THAT WEBSITE BECAUSE YOU’RE CURIOUS. CHROME WILL AUTOFILL INTO THE SITE BEFORE YOU CAN REACT AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OR HOW MUCH.
This should be standard advice for any phishing warning, unless it’s on a forum where everyone already has tons of cybersecurity experience. Do not click it, do not type it in, don’t click any 80k link for a while without inspecting it first. This will probably target other links too, ASAP, so just make sure to check every link that you’re clicking.
(If you want to visit the domain but not have it saved in your Chrome omnibar, just open an Incognito window.)
Why would that happen? If the domain is different, Chrome wouldn’t fill in any information from another domain. For me it just redirects to a run-of-the-mill domain squatting type website on yet another domain. Could be that it checked some of my browser settings and decided that the risk was too high that I’m a security researcher, and so redirected to an innocuous website. I haven’t tried hard to fool it.
Yeah, it’s changed to point to something a lot less directly malicious since I last checked this morning. (But, well, no reason to think it won’t change again tomorrow.)