Thousands of websites have now been hijacked by this devious, and growing, malicious scheme

• Researchers find more than 150,000 compromised websites
• The websites carried malware that overlaid them with malicious landing pages
• Web admins are advised to audit their code

Security researchers c/side recently reported on a major website hijacking campaign, in which unnamed threat actors took over 35,000 websites and used them to redirect visitors to malicious pages and even serve them malware.

Now, a month later, the team has claimed the campaign has scaled even further, and now compromises a staggering 150,000 websites.