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My Website Is Hosting a Phishing Page – Now What?

Sucuri · 2026-04-25 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

5 predictions
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
97%
"my website is hosting a phishing page – now what? most phishing advice is written for the person staring at a suspicious email. this guide is for the other kind of victim : the website owner whose legitimate site has been quietly turned into the attacker ’ s weapon. you didn ’ t …"
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
81%
"designed to harvest admin credentials. in many of these cases, the site owner isn ’ t the target. the attacker is borrowing the site ’ s clean reputation as camouflage. a legitimate domain, working https, and a clean record with google safe browsing let a phishing page last longe…"
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
67%
"is verifiably clean. microsoft smartscreen has its own submission process through the microsoft security intelligence portal, and if your url was reported to apwg or phishtank, both allow re - evaluation requests once the content is gone. if your domain sends email, check the maj…"
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
36%
"rely on the homepage looking clean. if you only remove the phishing page, you ’ ve done maybe a third of the job. phishing kits often coexist with backdoors, mailers, rogue admin users, or other persistence mechanisms. we ’ ve found phishing content buried in exact paths that are…"
T1566.002Spearphishing Link
32%
"admin accounts you don ’ t recognize, and scan wp - cron for unexpected scheduled tasks. - check the outbound mail queue and your mail server logs as well. phishing kits often ship with a php mailer script that sends lure emails from your compromised site, which is a fast way to …"

Summary

My Website Is Hosting a Phishing Page – Now What?

Most phishing advice is written for the person staring at a suspicious email. This guide is for the other kind of victim: The website owner whose legitimate site has been quietly turned into the attacker’s weapon.

You didn’t send the message or build the fake login page. You just woke up to a browser warning, a suspended hosting account, or a polite note from someone’s security team asking why your domain is requesting Apple ID credentials.

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