Is bit.ly safe or an attack page?
I click on a bit.ly link on a Youtube video and I was fronted with this.
I have used bit.ly before and I entered the url manually, but Firefox came up with this.
Any ideas? Is bit.ly safe or an attempt for a cyber attack?
TL;DR: Shortened links are not safe at all, and have never been. https://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=bit.ly shows the following:
TL;DR: Shortened links are not safe at all, and have never been. https://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=bit.ly shows the following:
What is the current listing status for bit.ly?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer. Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 31 time(s) over the past 90 days.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 91854 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 669 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2014-10-24, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2014-10-24.
Malicious software includes 200 trojan(s), 185 exploit(s), 152 scripting exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine. Malicious software is hosted on 365 domain(s), including hotclip.mobi/, likoj.net/, denotablin.com/. 353 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including trackcash.org/, javaistlus.com/, tracksite.us/. This site was hosted on 4 network(s) including AS30060 (VERISIGN-ILG1), AS14618 (AMAZON-AES), AS15169 (GOOGLE).
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, bit.ly appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 37 site(s) including phimdata.com/, zing3g.net/, lauxanh.org/. Has this site hosted malware? No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. How did this happen? In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message. How safe is bit.ly?
Our security team is dedicated to ensuring Bitly’s accounts, platform, and links are secure and reliable. All links are encrypted with HTTPS. This is an added layer of security on top of the advanced security settings we already provide to support corporate or government-mandated policies.