logo

Governmental Website Hacked To Spread Malware

ID: 668638e3-61c4-5914-a7e8-8b517e2d6b48

STIX ID: report--668638e3-61c4-5914-a7e8-8b517e2d6b48

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2025-04-02

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

...
...

Malicious actors are compromising legitimate websites—including a government site—by exploiting a Joomla image-gallery plugin vulnerability and using SEO poisoning to get infected pages into top search results; visitors are redirected to malicious domains that display fake antivirus pages to deliver malware or scareware.

Your team is not currently subscribed to this feed. You must subscribe to it in order to see this post.