Once you are forced into visiting the malicious website, perpetrators can install some kind of adware or mining botnet in your system to make money, even if you have closed the site.Īnd it’s not just malware, visiting unsafe websites makes you vulnerable to all kinds of viruses and trojans that can further cause greater damage, such as stealing private information.
One such method is malvertising in which online advertisements are stuffed with malicious code that redirects a user to a malicious website.
