Fake jQuery Domain Redirects Site Visitors to Scam Pages

A recent infection has been making its rounds across vulnerable WordPress sites, detected on over 160 websites so far at the time of writing. The infection is injected at the top of legitimate JavaScript files and executes a script from the following malicious domain: https://jquery0[.]com/JkrJYcvQ

At first glance, this domain appears to be legitimate. However, attackers have intentionally selected the domain name with the intention of deceiving webmasters. It’s nearly identical to https://jquery.com — a website belonging to …

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