Hacked websites are being put at even greater risk by malicious web redirect scripts

Representational image of internet connections against a cityscape.

Parrot traffic direction system (TDS), a malicious script that redirects website visitors to dangerous destinations, was observed evolving and becoming harder to detect.

Cybersecurity researchers Unit 42, from Palo Alto Networks, recently analyzed 10,000 Parrot landing page scripts, gathered between August 2019 and October 2023.