Report URI Finds 15,579 Infected Websites

The detection pipeline is advancing faster than the internet’s notification infrastructure. Finding compromised sites is increasingly automated; getting the right human to act remains painfully manual.

• –Infections stem from direct CMS compromise, supply-chain attacks, XSS, and expired domains revived to serve malware.
• –Browser telemetry and threat intelligence can expose risks that server-side scanners miss, especially malicious third-party scripts.
• –Low adoption of security.txt turns responsible disclosure into a labor-intensive guessing game.
• –CERTs and national cybersecurity agencies may be the only realistic channel for notifying thousands of regional sites at scale.
• –Report URI’s platform shows the commercial value of client-side visibility, but this incident highlights a broader ecosystem failure around remediation.