“TOP RATED DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN TRUSTED TOO.”- PROVED BY SOME TOP ALEXA WEBSITES!

Ethical Debuggers
1 min readOct 3, 2020

It is a universal truth for all of us that “Popular brands are always trusted”. Although, these brands sometimes charge more than the actual cost, but we all pay for that service because we have a belief that popular names always serve the best quality. The comparison of quality to that of brand name sometimes put a user in a strong dilemma whether to go for a particular service or not. But nowadays, advertising has big impact on the users who caught by these dilemmas and play a big role in the success of a brand name.

In today’s article, our agenda is not to make you realize the power of these brand names or their advertising rather to make you know that how your trust on these top rated and popular websites can steal your privacy as well as leave your money assets exposed. Some researchers form Palo Alto Networks have conduct a research on top rated and10,000 websites by Alexa on the World Wide Web and based on their research, they have found out 4 such websites which are trusted yet they are either compromised or contain external malicious links in them. These websites are a great threat to your online money assets and either contain web skimmer or coinminer in them. These website act as a silent thief and do not need any action from your side to commit the crime. Let’s have a detailed look at their operation.

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