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Cybersecurity researchers from Mandiant have published a newreportdetailing the campaigns.
Consumers visiting these websites and pages were at no risk, however.
For them, the payload was nothing more than lines of benign text that made no difference.
The motives seem to be material, Mandiant says.
Since the researchers discovered the campaign, most of the malicious code has been removed.
However, hackers can simply reintroduce it elsewhere, which is another huge advantage of this approach.
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